DescribeRegions
The DescribeRegions operation describes regions
that are currently available to the account.
Request Parameters
The following table describes the request parameters for DescribeRegions.
Parameter names are case sensitive.
| Name | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Name of a region. Type: String Default: None |
No |
Response Elements
The following table describes the default response tags included
in DescribeRegions responses.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
|
|
Region information. Type: RegionItemType[] |
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeRegions &RegionName.0=us-east-1 &RegionName.1=eu-west-1 &...auth parameters...
Sample Response
<DescribeRegionsResponse
xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-03-01//">
<regionInfo>
<item>
<regionName>us-east-1</regionName>
<regionUrl>us-east-1.ec2.amazonaws.com</regionUrl>
</item>
<item>
<regionName>eu-west-1</regionName>
<regionUrl>eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com</regionUrl>
</item>
</regionInfo>
</DescribeRegionsResponse>