How to Know the Status of Purchased Reserved Instances

The following is an example of how to view Reserved Instances that you purchased with the ec2-describe-reserved-instances command-line tool.

PROMPT> ec2-describe-reserved-instances
RESERVEDINSTANCE af9f760e-c1c1-449b-8128-1342d3a6927a m1.small us-east-1a 12 0.00 0.00 19 m1.small offering in us-east-1a Active
4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8 m1.small us-east-1a 12 0.00 0.00 3 m1.small offering in us-east-1a Active
RESERVEDINSTANCE af9f760e-c1c1-449b-8128-1342d3a6927b m1.small us-east-1a 12 0.00 0.00 19 m1.small offering in us-east-1a Active
4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8 m1.small us-east-1a 12 0.00 0.00 3 m1.small offering in us-east-1a Active
RESERVEDINSTANCE af9f760e-c1c1-449b-8128-1342d3a6927c m1.small us-east-1a 12 0.00 0.00 19 m1.small offering in us-east-1a Active
4b2293b4-5813-4cc8-9ce3-1957fc1dcfc8 m1.small us-east-1a 12 0.00 0.00 3 m1.small offering in us-east-1a Active