Examples of Using EC2 Describe Instance Type Offerings

Listing AWS Instance Type Offerings by Region and AZ. Blog Post

Prereq

This assumes you have either:

• the AWS CLI installed and configured or
• Python installed and configured to use AWS (for .py scripts)
• Powershell installed and configured to use AWS (for .ps1 scripts)

TODO add link to quick starts in the above

Use Cases

• use case 0: return a list of instances offerings by region (check-instance-type-by-region.py / .ps1)
• Use case 2: pass a specific instance type with region / AZ with and return a true/false if not available (check-instance-type-available.py)
• Use case 3: pass a specific instance type with a region and return a list of AZs (list-instance-type-offering.py)

TODO Stretch Goal

• Create a website that shows the use cases.

References

AWS CLI

CLI Docs

API

API Docs