Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

DescribeScheduledInstanceAvailability

Finds available schedules that meet the specified criteria.

You can search for an available schedule no more than 3 months in advance. You must meet the minimum required duration of 1,200 hours per year. For example, the minimum daily schedule is 4 hours, the minimum weekly schedule is 24 hours, and the minimum monthly schedule is 100 hours.

After you find a schedule that meets your needs, call PurchaseScheduledInstances to purchase Scheduled Instances with that schedule.

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.

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, 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

Filter.N

The filters.

availability-zone - The Availability Zone (for example, us-west-2a).
instance-type - The instance type (for example, c4.large).
platform - The platform (Linux/UNIX or Windows).

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

FirstSlotStartTimeRange

The time period for the first schedule to start.

Type: SlotDateTimeRangeRequest object

Required: Yes

MaxResults

The maximum number of results to return in a single call. This value can be between 5 and 300. The default value is 300. To retrieve the remaining results, make another call with the returned NextToken value.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 5. Maximum value of 300.

Required: No

MaxSlotDurationInHours

The maximum available duration, in hours. This value must be greater than MinSlotDurationInHours and less than 1,720.

Type: Integer

Required: No

MinSlotDurationInHours

The minimum available duration, in hours. The minimum required duration is 1,200 hours per year. For example, the minimum daily schedule is 4 hours, the minimum weekly schedule is 24 hours, and the minimum monthly schedule is 100 hours.

Type: Integer

Required: No

NextToken

The token for the next set of results.

Type: String

Required: No

Recurrence

The schedule recurrence.

Type: ScheduledInstanceRecurrenceRequest object

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

nextToken

The token required to retrieve the next set of results. This value is null when there are no more results to return.

Type: String

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

scheduledInstanceAvailabilitySet

Information about the available Scheduled Instances.

Type: Array of ScheduledInstanceAvailability objects

Errors

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