ec2-describe-availability-zones
Syntax
ec2-describe-availability-zones [
zone-name
...]
Description
Describes availability zones that are currently available to the account and their states.
Note | |
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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. |
Options
Option | Description | Required |
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| Name of an availability zone. Example: | No |
Output
Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:
Output type identifier ("AVAILABILITYZONE")
Availability zone name
State
Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr
.
Example
This example displays the availability zones that are available to the account.
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ec2-describe-availability-zones
AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1a available AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1b available AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1c available