ec2-describe-availability-zones

ec2-describe-availability-zones [zone-name...]

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

	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.

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

This example displays the 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