ec2-describe-availability-zones

Description

Displays Availability Zones that are currently available to the account and their states.

	Note
	Availability Zones are not the same across accounts. The Availability Zone us-east-1a for account A is not necessarily the same as us-east-1a for account B. Zone assignments are mapped independently for each account.

Syntax

ec2-describe-availability-zones [zone_name...]

Options

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`zone-name`	Availability Zone name. Type: String Default: None Example: us-east-1a	No

zone-name

Availability Zone name.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: us-east-1a

No

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

AVAILABILITYZONE identifier
Availability Zone name
State

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example displays information about Availability Zones that are available to the account.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-availability-zones
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1a available
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1b available
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1c available
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1d available