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Use DescribeScheduledInstanceAvailability with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeScheduledInstanceAvailability.

CLI
AWS CLI

To describe an available schedule

This example describes a schedule that occurs every week on Sunday, starting on the specified date.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-scheduled-instance-availability --recurrence Frequency=Weekly,Interval=1,OccurrenceDays=[1] --first-slot-start-time-range EarliestTime=2016-01-31T00:00:00Z,LatestTime=2016-01-31T04:00:00Z

Output:

{ "ScheduledInstanceAvailabilitySet": [ { "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-2b", "TotalScheduledInstanceHours": 1219, "PurchaseToken": "eyJ2IjoiMSIsInMiOjEsImMiOi...", "MinTermDurationInDays": 366, "AvailableInstanceCount": 20, "Recurrence": { "OccurrenceDaySet": [ 1 ], "Interval": 1, "Frequency": "Weekly", "OccurrenceRelativeToEnd": false }, "Platform": "Linux/UNIX", "FirstSlotStartTime": "2016-01-31T00:00:00Z", "MaxTermDurationInDays": 366, "SlotDurationInHours": 23, "NetworkPlatform": "EC2-VPC", "InstanceType": "c4.large", "HourlyPrice": "0.095" }, ... ] }

To narrow the results, you can add filters that specify the operating system, network, and instance type.

Command:

--filters Name=platform,Values=Linux/UNIX Name=network-platform,Values=EC2-VPC Name=instance-type,Values=c4.large

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example describes a schedule that occurs every week on Sunday, starting on the specified date.

Get-EC2ScheduledInstanceAvailability -Recurrence_Frequency Weekly -Recurrence_Interval 1 -Recurrence_OccurrenceDay 1 -FirstSlotStartTimeRange_EarliestTime 2016-01-31T00:00:00Z -FirstSlotStartTimeRange_LatestTime 2016-01-31T04:00:00Z

Output:

AvailabilityZone : us-west-2b AvailableInstanceCount : 20 FirstSlotStartTime : 1/31/2016 8:00:00 AM HourlyPrice : 0.095 InstanceType : c4.large MaxTermDurationInDays : 366 MinTermDurationInDays : 366 NetworkPlatform : EC2-VPC Platform : Linux/UNIX PurchaseToken : eyJ2IjoiMSIsInMiOjEsImMiOi... Recurrence : Amazon.EC2.Model.ScheduledInstanceRecurrence SlotDurationInHours : 23 TotalScheduledInstanceHours : 1219 ...

Example 2: To narrow the results, you can add filters for criteria such as operating system, network, and instance type.

-Filter @{ Name="platform";Values="Linux/UNIX" },@{ Name="network-platform";Values="EC2-VPC" },@{ Name="instance-type";Values="c4.large" }