Describe a Spot Fleet request, its instances, and event history - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Describe a Spot Fleet request, its instances, and event history

You can describe your Spot Fleet configuration, the instances in your Spot Fleet, and the event history of your Spot Fleet.

Console
To describe your Spot Fleet

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Spot Requests.

  3. Select your Spot Fleet request. The ID begins with sfr-. To see the configuration details, choose Description.

  4. To list the Spot Instances for the Spot Fleet, choose Instances.

  5. To view the history for the Spot Fleet, choose History.

Amazon CLI
To describe your Spot Fleet request

Use the describe-spot-fleet-requests command.

aws ec2 describe-spot-fleet-requests \
    --spot-fleet-request-ids sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE
To describe the running instances for the specified Spot Fleet request

Use the describe-spot-fleet-instances command.

aws ec2 describe-spot-fleet-instances \
    --spot-fleet-request-id sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE
To describe the event history for the specified Spot Fleet request

Use the describe-spot-fleet-request-history command.

aws ec2 describe-spot-fleet-request-history \
    --spot-fleet-request-id sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE \
    --start-time 2024-05-18T00:00:00Z
PowerShell
To describe your Spot Fleet request

Use the Get-EC2SpotFleetRequest cmdlet.

Get-EC2SpotFleetRequest
To describe the running instances for the specified Spot Fleet request

Use the Get-EC2SpotFleetInstance cmdlet.

Get-EC2SpotFleetInstance `
    -SpotFleetRequestId "sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE"
To describe the event history for the specified Spot Fleet request

Use the Get-EC2SpotFleetRequestHistory cmdlet.

Get-EC2SpotFleetRequestHistory `
    -SpotFleetRequestId "sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE" `
    -UtcStartTime 2024-05-18T00:00:00Z