Use CancelSpotInstanceRequests with an Amazon SDK or CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Use CancelSpotInstanceRequests with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use CancelSpotInstanceRequests.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To cancel Spot Instance requests

This example command cancels a Spot Instance request.

Command:

aws ec2 cancel-spot-instance-requests --spot-instance-request-ids sir-08b93456

Output:

{
    "CancelledSpotInstanceRequests": [
        {
            "State": "cancelled",
            "SpotInstanceRequestId": "sir-08b93456"
        }
    ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example cancels the specified Spot instance request.

Stop-EC2SpotInstanceRequest -SpotInstanceRequestId sir-12345678

Output:

SpotInstanceRequestId    State
---------------------    -----
sir-12345678             cancelled

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