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ModifyInstanceCreditSpecification - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

ModifyInstanceCreditSpecification

Modifies the credit option for CPU usage on a running or stopped burstable performance instance. The credit options are standard and unlimited.

For more information, see Burstable performance instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

ClientToken

A unique, case-sensitive token that you provide to ensure idempotency of your modification request. For more information, see Ensuring Idempotency.

Type: String

Required: No

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the operation, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

InstanceCreditSpecification.N

Information about the credit option for CPU usage.

Type: Array of InstanceCreditSpecificationRequest objects

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

successfulInstanceCreditSpecificationSet

Information about the instances whose credit option for CPU usage was successfully modified.

Type: Array of SuccessfulInstanceCreditSpecificationItem objects

unsuccessfulInstanceCreditSpecificationSet

Information about the instances whose credit option for CPU usage was not modified.

Type: Array of UnsuccessfulInstanceCreditSpecificationItem objects

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example

This request modifies the credit option for CPU usage of the specified instance in the specified Region to unlimited. Valid credit options are standard and unlimited.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ModifyInstanceCreditSpecification &Region=us-east-1 &InstanceCreditSpecification.1.InstanceId=i-1234567890abcdef0 &InstanceCreditSpecification.1.CpuCredits=unlimited &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<ModifyInstanceCreditSpecificationResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/"> <requestId>11111111-2222-3333-4444-5555EXAMPLE</requestId> <unsuccessfulInstanceCreditSpecificationSet/> <successfulInstanceCreditSpecificationSet> <item> <instanceId>i-1234567890abcdef0</instanceId> </item> </successfulInstanceCreditSpecificationSet>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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