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

The following code examples show how to use CreatePlacementGroup.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To create a placement group

This example command creates a placement group with the specified name.

Command:

aws ec2 create-placement-group --group-name my-cluster --strategy cluster

To create a partition placement group

This example command creates a partition placement group named HDFS-Group-A with five partitions.

Command:

aws ec2 create-placement-group --group-name HDFS-Group-A --strategy partition --partition-count 5
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example creates a placement group with the specified name.

New-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group -Strategy cluster

For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.