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CreateCapacityReservationBySplitting - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

CreateCapacityReservationBySplitting

Create a new Capacity Reservation by splitting the capacity of the source Capacity Reservation. The new Capacity Reservation will have the same attributes as the source Capacity Reservation except for tags. The source Capacity Reservation must be active and owned by your AWS account.

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.

ClientToken

Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see Ensure Idempotency.

Type: String

Required: No

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

InstanceCount

The number of instances to split from the source Capacity Reservation.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

SourceCapacityReservationId

The ID of the Capacity Reservation from which you want to split the capacity.

Type: String

Required: Yes

TagSpecification.N

The tags to apply to the new Capacity Reservation.

Type: Array of TagSpecification objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

destinationCapacityReservation

Information about the destination Capacity Reservation.

Type: CapacityReservation object

instanceCount

The number of instances in the new Capacity Reservation. The number of instances in the source Capacity Reservation was reduced by this amount.

Type: Integer

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

sourceCapacityReservation

Information about the source Capacity Reservation.

Type: CapacityReservation object

Errors

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

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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