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ec2-describe-availability-zones

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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ec2-describe-availability-zones

Description

Displays Availability Zones that are currently available to the account and their states.

[Note] Note

Availability Zones are not the same across accounts. The Availability Zone us-east-1a for account A is not necessarily the same as us-east-1a for account B. Zone assignments are mapped independently for each account.

Syntax

ec2-describe-availability-zones [zone_name...]

Options

Name Description Required

zone-name

Availability Zone name.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: us-east-1a

No

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • AVAILABILITYZONE identifier

  • Availability Zone name

  • State

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example displays information about Availability Zones that are available to the account.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-availability-zones
AVAILABILITYZONE	us-east-1a   available
AVAILABILITYZONE	us-east-1b   available
AVAILABILITYZONE	us-east-1c   available
AVAILABILITYZONE	us-east-1d   available

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