ec2-describe-spot-instance-requests

Description

Describes Spot Instance requests. Spot Instances are instances that Amazon EC2 starts on your behalf when the maximum price that you specify exceeds the current Spot Price. Amazon EC2 periodically sets the Spot Price based on available Spot Instance capacity and current spot instance requests. For conceptual information about Spot Instances, refer to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Syntax

ec2-describe-spot-instance-requests [request_id [request_id...]]

Options

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`request_id`	Specifies the ID of the Spot Instance request. Type: String Default: None Example: sir-8456a32b	No

request_id

Specifies the ID of the Spot Instance request.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: sir-8456a32b

No

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

Request ID
Spot Price
Type
State
Fault
Valid From
Valid Until
Launch Group
Availability Zone Group
Launch Specification
Create Time
Description

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example returns information about current Spot Instance requests.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-spot-instance-requests sir-f102a405
SPOTINSTANCEREQUEST sir-f102a405 0.1 one-time Linux/UNIX active
							2009-12-12T22:58:47+0200 i-3597b470 ami-7d3b6a38 m1.small default
							monitoring-enabled