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. For more information about Reserved Instances, go to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offerings
[
offering_id ...]
[--typeinstance_type ...]
[--availability-zonezone ...]
[--descriptiondescription ...]
| Name | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
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The instance type on which the Reserved Instance can be used. Type: String Default: None Example: m1.small |
No |
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The Availability Zone in which the Reserved Instance can be used. Type: String Default: None Example: us-east-1a |
No |
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The Reserved Instance description. Type: String Default: None Constraints: 255 characters Example: m1.small offering in us-east-1a |
No |
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
Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.
This example describes available Reserved Instance offerings.
PROMPT>ec2-describe-reserved-instances-offeringsOFFERING 4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8 m1.small us-east-1a 1y 0.00 0.00 Linux/UNIX