AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DescribeSpotInstanceRequests API operation.

Syntax

Get-EC2SpotInstanceRequest
-SpotInstanceRequestId <String[]>
-Filter <Filter[]>
-MaxResult <Int32>
-NextToken <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-NoAutoIteration <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonEC2Config>

Description

Describes the specified Spot Instance requests. You can use DescribeSpotInstanceRequests to find a running Spot Instance by examining the response. If the status of the Spot Instance is fulfilled, the instance ID appears in the response and contains the identifier of the instance. Alternatively, you can use DescribeInstances with a filter to look for instances where the instance lifecycle is spot. We recommend that you set MaxResults to a value between 5 and 1000 to limit the number of items returned. This paginates the output, which makes the list more manageable and returns the items faster. If the list of items exceeds your MaxResults value, then that number of items is returned along with a NextToken value that can be passed to a subsequent DescribeSpotInstanceRequests request to retrieve the remaining items. Spot Instance requests are deleted four hours after they are canceled and their instances are terminated.

This cmdlet automatically pages all available results to the pipeline - parameters related to iteration are only needed if you want to manually control the paginated output. To disable autopagination, use -NoAutoIteration.

Parameters

-ClientConfig <AmazonEC2Config>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.EC2.AmazonEC2ClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Filter <Filter[]>
The filters.
  • availability-zone-group - The Availability Zone group.
  • create-time - The time stamp when the Spot Instance request was created.
  • fault-code - The fault code related to the request.
  • fault-message - The fault message related to the request.
  • instance-id - The ID of the instance that fulfilled the request.
  • launch-group - The Spot Instance launch group.
  • launch.block-device-mapping.delete-on-termination - Indicates whether the EBS volume is deleted on instance termination.
  • launch.block-device-mapping.device-name - The device name for the volume in the block device mapping (for example, /dev/sdh or xvdh).
  • launch.block-device-mapping.snapshot-id - The ID of the snapshot for the EBS volume.
  • launch.block-device-mapping.volume-size - The size of the EBS volume, in GiB.
  • launch.block-device-mapping.volume-type - The type of EBS volume: gp2 or gp3 for General Purpose SSD, io1 or io2 for Provisioned IOPS SSD, st1 for Throughput Optimized HDD, sc1 for Cold HDD, or standard for Magnetic.
  • launch.group-id - The ID of the security group for the instance.
  • launch.group-name - The name of the security group for the instance.
  • launch.image-id - The ID of the AMI.
  • launch.instance-type - The type of instance (for example, m3.medium).
  • launch.kernel-id - The kernel ID.
  • launch.key-name - The name of the key pair the instance launched with.
  • launch.monitoring-enabled - Whether detailed monitoring is enabled for the Spot Instance.
  • launch.ramdisk-id - The RAM disk ID.
  • launched-availability-zone - The Availability Zone in which the request is launched.
  • network-interface.addresses.primary - Indicates whether the IP address is the primary private IP address.
  • network-interface.delete-on-termination - Indicates whether the network interface is deleted when the instance is terminated.
  • network-interface.description - A description of the network interface.
  • network-interface.device-index - The index of the device for the network interface attachment on the instance.
  • network-interface.group-id - The ID of the security group associated with the network interface.
  • network-interface.network-interface-id - The ID of the network interface.
  • network-interface.private-ip-address - The primary private IP address of the network interface.
  • network-interface.subnet-id - The ID of the subnet for the instance.
  • product-description - The product description associated with the instance (Linux/UNIX | Windows).
  • spot-instance-request-id - The Spot Instance request ID.
  • spot-price - The maximum hourly price for any Spot Instance launched to fulfill the request.
  • state - The state of the Spot Instance request (open | active | closed | cancelled | failed). Spot request status information can help you track your Amazon EC2 Spot Instance requests. For more information, see Spot request status in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.
  • status-code - The short code describing the most recent evaluation of your Spot Instance request.
  • status-message - The message explaining the status of the Spot Instance request.
  • tag:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.
  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.
  • type - The type of Spot Instance request (one-time | persistent).
  • valid-from - The start date of the request.
  • valid-until - The end date of the request.
Required?False
Position?2
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesFilters
-MaxResult <Int32>
The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. For more information, see Pagination.
Note: In AWSPowerShell and AWSPowerShell.NetCore this parameter is used to limit the total number of items returned by the cmdlet.
In AWS.Tools this parameter is simply passed to the service to specify how many items should be returned by each service call.
Pipe the output of this cmdlet into Select-Object -First to terminate retrieving data pages early and control the number of items returned.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesMaxItems, MaxResults
-NextToken <String>
The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.
Note: This parameter is only used if you are manually controlling output pagination of the service API call.
In order to manually control output pagination, use '-NextToken $null' for the first call and '-NextToken $AWSHistory.LastServiceResponse.NextToken' for subsequent calls.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NoAutoIteration <SwitchParameter>
By default the cmdlet will auto-iterate and retrieve all results to the pipeline by performing multiple service calls. If set, the cmdlet will retrieve only the next 'page' of results using the value of NextToken as the start point.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the SpotInstanceRequestId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^SpotInstanceRequestId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'SpotInstanceRequests'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeSpotInstanceRequestsResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeSpotInstanceRequestsResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-SpotInstanceRequestId <String[]>
The IDs of the Spot Instance requests.
Required?False
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
AliasesSpotInstanceRequestIds

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

Amazon.EC2.Model.SpotInstanceRequest or Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeSpotInstanceRequestsResponse
This cmdlet returns a collection of Amazon.EC2.Model.SpotInstanceRequest objects. The service call response (type Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeSpotInstanceRequestsResponse) can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.

Examples

Example 1

Get-EC2SpotInstanceRequest -SpotInstanceRequestId sir-12345678
    
ActualBlockHourlyPrice   :
AvailabilityZoneGroup    :
BlockDurationMinutes     : 0
CreateTime               : 4/8/2015 2:51:33 PM
Fault                    :
InstanceId               : i-12345678
LaunchedAvailabilityZone : us-west-2b
LaunchGroup              :
LaunchSpecification      : Amazon.EC2.Model.LaunchSpecification
ProductDescription       : Linux/UNIX
SpotInstanceRequestId    : sir-12345678
SpotPrice                : 0.020000
State                    : active
Status                   : Amazon.EC2.Model.SpotInstanceStatus
Tags                     : {Name}
Type                     : one-time
This example describes the specified Spot instance request.

Example 2

Get-EC2SpotInstanceRequest
This example describes all your Spot instance requests.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z