CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription

Creates a data feed for Spot Instances, enabling you to view Spot Instance usage logs. You can create one data feed per Amazon Web Services account. For more information, see Spot Instance data feed in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

Bucket

The name of the Amazon S3 bucket in which to store the Spot Instance data feed. For more information about bucket names, see Rules for bucket naming in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

Type: String

Required: Yes

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Prefix

The prefix for the data feed file names.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

spotDatafeedSubscription

The Spot Instance data feed subscription.

Type: SpotDatafeedSubscription object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example

This example creates a Spot Instance data feed for the account.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription &Bucket=my-s3-bucket &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<CreateSpotDatafeedSubscriptionResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/"> <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> <spotDatafeedSubscription> <ownerId>123456789012</ownerId> <bucket>my-s3-bucket</bucket> <prefix>spotdata_</prefix> <state>Active</state> </spotDatafeedSubscription> </CreateSpotDatafeedSubscriptionResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: