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Use DescribePlacementGroups with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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Use DescribePlacementGroups with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribePlacementGroups.

CLI
AWS CLI

To describe your placement groups

The following describe-placement-groups example describes all of your placement groups.

aws ec2 describe-placement-groups

Output:

{
    "PlacementGroups": [
        {
            "GroupName": "my-cluster",
            "State": "available",
            "Strategy": "cluster"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Placement groups for your Amazon EC2 instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example describes the specified placement group.

Get-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group

Output:

GroupName             State        Strategy
---------             -----        --------
my-placement-group    available    cluster
Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example describes the specified placement group.

Get-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group

Output:

GroupName             State        Strategy
---------             -----        --------
my-placement-group    available    cluster