ec2-purchase-reserved-instances-offering
Syntax
ec2-purchase-reserved-instances-offering --offering offering --instance-count count
Description
Purchases a Reserved Instance for use with your account. With Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, you purchase the right to launch Amazon EC2 instances for a period of time (without getting insufficient capacity errors) and pay a lower usage rate for the actual time used. For more information about Reserved Instances, see
Options
| Option | Description | Required |
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The ID of the offering. Example: |
Yes |
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The number of Reserved Instances to purchase. Example: |
Yes |
Output
Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:
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RESERVEDINSTANCES identifier
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The ID(s) of the purchased Reserved Instances
Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.
Example
This example purchases Reserved Instances.
PROMPT>ec2-purchase-reserved-instances-offering --offering 4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8 --instance-count 3RESERVEDINSTANCES b847fa93-0c31-405b-b745-b6bf00032333 b847fa93-0c31-405b-b745-b6bf00032334 b847fa93-0c31-405b-b745-b6bf00032335