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ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings
Description
Describes Reserved Instance offerings that are available for purchase. With Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, you purchase the right to launch Amazon EC2 instances for a period of time (without getting insufficient capacity errors) and pay a lower usage rate for the actual time used.
Starting with the 2011-11-01 API version, AWS expanded its offering of Amazon EC2 Reserved
Instances to address a range of projected instance use. There are three types of Reserved Instances based on
customer utilization levels: Heavy Utilization,
Medium Utilization, and Light Utilization.
You determine the type of the Reserved Instance offering by including the optional
offering-type parameter when calling ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings.
The Medium Utilization offering type is equivalent to the Reserved Instance offering available before API
version 2011-11-01. If you are using tools that predate the 2011-11-01 API version, ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings
will only list information about the Medium Utilization Reserved Instance offering type.
For more information about Reserved Instances, go to Reserved Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
Our policy is to provide filters for all describe calls so you can limit the results to your specified criteria. Therefore, you can use filters to limit the results when describing Reserved Instances offerings, even though you can use the regular request parameters to do something similar.
For example, you could use the regular request parameters or a filter to get the offerings for a particular instance type. You can specify multiple request parameters or multiple filters (e.g., limit the results to the m2.xlarge instance type, and only for Windows instances). The result includes information for a particular offering only if it matches all your request parameters or filters. If there's no match, no special message is returned; the response is simply empty.
You can use wildcards with the filter values: * matches zero or more characters, and ? matches exactly one character. You can escape special characters using a backslash before the character. For example, a value of \*amazon\?\\ searches for the literal string *amazon?\.
The following table shows the available filters.
| Filter Name | Description |
|---|---|
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Availability Zone where the Reserved Instance can be used. Type: String |
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Duration of the Reserved Instance (e.g., one year or three years), in seconds. Type: xs:long Valid Values: |
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Purchase price of the Reserved Instance (e.g., Type: xs:double |
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Instance type on which the Reserved Instance can be used. Type: String |
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Reserved Instance description. Type: String Valid Values: |
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Reserved Instances offering ID. Type: String |
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Usage price of the Reserved Instance, per hour (e.g., Type: xs:double |
The short version of this command is ec2drio.
Syntax
ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings
[
offering_id ...] [--type
instance_type ...] [--offering-type offering]
[--availability-zone zone ...] [--description
description ...]
[[--filter name=value] ...]
[--tenancy tenancy]
Options
| Name | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
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ID of a Reserved Instance offering. Type: String Default: None Example: 438012d3-4967-4ba9-aa40-cbb1d13235e0 |
No |
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The instance type on which the Reserved Instance can be used. Type: String Default: None Example: -t m1.small |
No |
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The Reserved Instance offering type. Type: String Default: None Valid Values: Example: --offering-type "Medium Utilization" |
No |
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The Availability Zone in which the Reserved Instance can be used. Type: String Default: None Example: -z us-east-1a |
No |
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The Reserved Instance description. Instances that include Type: String Default: None Valid Values: Example: -d Linux/UNIX |
No |
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A filter for limiting the results. See the preceding table for a list of allowed filter names and values. If you're using the command line tools on a Windows system, you might need to use quotation marks (i.e., "name=value"). Type: String Default: Describes all Reserved Instances offerings, or those otherwise specified. Example: --filter "instance-type=m1.small" |
No |
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Specifies the tenancy of the Reserved Instance offering. A Reserved Instance with tenancy of dedicated will run on single-tenant hardware and can only be launched within a VPC. Type: String Default: default Valid Values: default | dedicated |
No |
Common Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
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Overrides the Region specified in the Default: The Example: |
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Default: The Example: |
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The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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Specifies a connection timeout (in seconds). Example: --connection-timeout 30 |
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Specifies a request timeout (in seconds). Example: --request-timeout 45 |
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Displays verbose output by showing the SOAP request and response on the command line. This is particularly useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our SOAP API. |
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Displays column headers in the output. |
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Shows empty columns as |
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Do not display tags for tagged resources. |
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Prints internal debugging information. This is useful to assist us when troubleshooting problems. |
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Displays Help. |
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If Example: |
Output
The command returns a table that contains the following information:
OFFERING identifier
ID of the offer
The instance type
The Availability Zone in which the Reserved Instance can be used
The duration of the Reserved Instance
The purchase price of the Reserved Instance
The usage price of the Reserved Instance, per hour
The Reserved Instance description (Linux/UNIX, Windows, Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), or Windows (Amazon VPC))
The tenancy of the Reserved Instance.
The currency of the Reserved Instance. It's specified using ISO 4217 standard (e.g., USD, JPY).
The instance offering type
Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.
Examples
Example Request
This example describes available Reserved Instance offerings in the us-east-1 Availability Zone.
PROMPT>ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings --region us-east-1 -HType ReservedInstancesOfferingId AvailabilityZone InstanceType Duration FixedPrice UsagePrice ProductDescription Currency InstanceTenancy OfferingType OFFERING 248e7b75-c83a-48c1-bcf7-b7f03e9c43fe us-east-1b c1.medium 3y 700.0 0.06 Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC) USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 3a98bf7d-05c0-40d0-a173-81a3986ba568 us-east-1b c1.medium 3y 700.0 0.125 Windows USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 4b2293b4-ff40-4a1a-9fef-1f12ad37a711 us-east-1b c1.medium 3y 700.0 0.06 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization ... OFFERING 4b2293b4-b3c5-4ad1-b7f5-b7832ecd6d63 us-east-1d m1.xlarge 3y 3600.0 0.0 Linux/UNIX USD default Heavy Utilization ... OFFERING 649fd0c8-efd6-4800-a7f3-0a9f1c3ea2c1 us-east-1d m2.xlarge 1y 1000.0 0.5 Linux/UNIX USD default Light Utilization ...
Example Request
This example filters the results to display only one-year, m1.small or m1.large Linux/UNIX Reserved Instances. If you want Linux/UNIX
Reserved Instances specifically for use with Amazon VPC, set the product descripton to Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC).
PROMPT>ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings --filter "duration=31536000" --filter "instance-type=m1.small" --filter "instance-type=m1.large" --filter "product-description=Linux/UNIX" -HType ReservedInstancesOfferingId AvailabilityZone InstanceType Duration FixedPrice UsagePrice ProductDescription Currency InstanceTenancy OfferingType OFFERING 649fd0c8-7d25-4e81-959e-0e1bc9410a87 us-east-1c m1.large 1y 910.0 0.12 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 438012d3-278f-4ad6-9cb9-e23188dafcf5 us-east-1b m1.large 1y 910.0 0.12 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 4b2293b4-20f5-4b3d-9969-46341f34b03c us-east-1d m1.large 1y 910.0 0.12 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 3a98bf7d-abc6-47a0-870e-e245903ddf6a us-east-1a m1.large 1y 910.0 0.12 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING ceb6a579-757c-474b-b09b-52c84b605767 us-east-1c m1.small 1y 227.5 0.03 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 60dcfab3-06bb-4b68-9503-53bf89823b5e us-east-1b m1.small 1y 227.5 0.03 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 438012d3-80c7-42c6-9396-a209c58607f9 us-east-1d m1.small 1y 227.5 0.03 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization OFFERING 649fd0c8-5d76-4881-a522-fe5224c10fcc us-east-1a m1.small 1y 227.5 0.03 Linux/UNIX USD default Medium Utilization ...
