Using Regions and Availability Zones for Amazon EC2

Prerequisites

Before you begin, we recommend you read Getting started using the AWS SDK for C++.

Download the example code and build the solution as described in Getting started on code examples.

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Describe Regions

To list the AWS Regions available to your AWS account, call the EC2Client’s DescribeRegions function with a DescribeRegionsRequest.

You will receive a DescribeRegionsResponse in the outcome object. Call its GetRegions function to get a list of Region objects that represent each Region.

Includes

#include <aws/ec2/EC2Client.h>
#include <aws/ec2/model/DescribeRegionsRequest.h>

Code

    Aws::EC2::EC2Client ec2Client(clientConfiguration);

    Aws::EC2::Model::DescribeRegionsRequest request;
    Aws::EC2::Model::DescribeRegionsOutcome outcome = ec2Client.DescribeRegions(request);
    if (outcome.IsSuccess()) {
        std::cout << std::left <<
                  std::setw(32) << "RegionName" <<
                  std::setw(64) << "Endpoint" << std::endl;

        const auto &regions = outcome.GetResult().GetRegions();
        for (const auto &region: regions) {
            std::cout << std::left <<
                      std::setw(32) << region.GetRegionName() <<
                      std::setw(64) << region.GetEndpoint() << std::endl;
        }
    } else {
        std::cerr << "Failed to describe regions:" <<
                  outcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl;
    }

See the complete example.

Describe Availability Zones

To list each availability zone available to your account, call the EC2Client’s DescribeAvailabilityZones function with a DescribeAvailabilityZonesRequest.

You will receive a DescribeAvailabilityZonesResponse in the outcome object. Call its GetAvailabilityZones function to get a list of AvailabilityZone objects that represent each availability zone.

Includes

#include <aws/ec2/model/DescribeAvailabilityZonesRequest.h>

Code

    Aws::EC2::Model::DescribeAvailabilityZonesRequest request;
    Aws::EC2::Model::DescribeAvailabilityZonesOutcome outcome = ec2Client.DescribeAvailabilityZones(request);

    if (outcome.IsSuccess()) {
        std::cout << std::left <<
                  std::setw(32) << "ZoneName" <<
                  std::setw(20) << "State" <<
                  std::setw(32) << "Region" << std::endl;

        const auto &zones =
                outcome.GetResult().GetAvailabilityZones();

        for (const auto &zone: zones) {
            Aws::String stateString =
                    Aws::EC2::Model::AvailabilityZoneStateMapper::GetNameForAvailabilityZoneState(
                            zone.GetState());
            std::cout << std::left <<
                      std::setw(32) << zone.GetZoneName() <<
                      std::setw(20) << stateString <<
                      std::setw(32) << zone.GetRegionName() << std::endl;
        }
    } else {
        std::cerr << "Failed to describe availability zones:" <<
                  outcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl;

    }

See the complete example.

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