Create a Capacity Reservation group - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Create a Capacity Reservation group

You can use the following examples to create a resource group for Capacity Reservations with the following request parameters.

  • AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool – Ensures that the resource group can be targeted for instance launches.

  • AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic with allowed-resource-types set to AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation – Ensures that the resource group accepts Capacity Reservations only.

After you create a group, you can add Capacity Reservations to the group.

AWS CLI
To create a group for Capacity Reservations

Use the create-group AWS CLI command.

aws resource-groups create-group \
    --name MyCRGroup \
    --configuration \
        '{"Type": "AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool"}' \
        '{"Type": "AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic", "Parameters": [{"Name": "allowed-resource-types", "Values": ["AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation"]}]}'
PowerShell
To create a group for Capacity Reservations

Use the New-RGGroup cmdlet.

New-RGGroup `
    -Name MyCRGroup `
    -Configuration `
        @{"Type"="AWS::EC2::CapacityReserationPool"} `
        @{"Type"="AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic"; "Parameters"=@{"allowed-resource-types"=@{"Values"="AWS::EC2::CapacityReservations"}}}