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Use CancelSpotInstanceRequests with a CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Use CancelSpotInstanceRequests with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use CancelSpotInstanceRequests.

CLI
AWS CLI

To cancel Spot Instance requests

The following cancel-spot-instance-requests example cancels a Spot Instance request.

aws ec2 cancel-spot-instance-requests \
    --spot-instance-request-ids sir-08b93456

Output:

{
    "CancelledSpotInstanceRequests": [
        {
            "State": "cancelled",
            "SpotInstanceRequestId": "sir-08b93456"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Cancel a Spot Instance request in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example cancels the specified Spot instance request.

Stop-EC2SpotInstanceRequest -SpotInstanceRequestId sir-12345678

Output:

SpotInstanceRequestId    State
---------------------    -----
sir-12345678             cancelled
Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example cancels the specified Spot instance request.

Stop-EC2SpotInstanceRequest -SpotInstanceRequestId sir-12345678

Output:

SpotInstanceRequestId    State
---------------------    -----
sir-12345678             cancelled

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.