Use DescribePrefixLists with a CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Use DescribePrefixLists with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribePrefixLists.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To describe prefix lists

This example lists all available prefix lists for the region.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-prefix-lists

Output:

{
  "PrefixLists": [
    {
      "PrefixListName": "com.amazonaws.us-east-1.s3",
      "Cidrs": [
        "54.231.0.0/17"
      ],
      "PrefixListId": "pl-63a5400a"
    }
  ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example fetches the available Amazon Web Services services in a prefix list format for the region

Get-EC2PrefixList

Output:

Cidrs                                          PrefixListId PrefixListName
-----                                          ------------ --------------
{52.94.5.0/24, 52.119.240.0/21, 52.94.24.0/23} pl-6fa54006  com.amazonaws.eu-west-1.dynamodb
{52.218.0.0/17, 54.231.128.0/19}               pl-6da54004  com.amazonaws.eu-west-1.s3

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.