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Amazon Price List examples using Tools for PowerShell V5

The following code examples show you how to perform actions and implement common scenarios by using the Amazon Tools for PowerShell V5 with Amazon Price List.

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The following code example shows how to use Get-PLSAttributeValue.

Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: Returns the values for the attribute 'volumeType' for Amazon EC2 in the us-east-1 region.

Get-PLSAttributeValue -ServiceCode AmazonEC2 -AttributeName "volumeType" -region us-east-1

Output:

Value
-----
Cold HDD
General Purpose
Magnetic
Provisioned IOPS
Throughput Optimized HDD

  • For API details, see GetAttributeValues in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5).

The following code example shows how to use Get-PLSProduct.

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Example 1: Returns details of all products for Amazon EC2.

Get-PLSProduct -ServiceCode AmazonEC2 -Region us-east-1

Output:

{"product":{"productFamily":"Compute Instance","attributes":{"enhancedNetworkingSupported":"Yes","memory":"30.5 GiB","dedicatedEbsThroughput":"800 Mbps","vcpu":"4","locationType":"AWS Region","storage":"EBS only","instanceFamily":"Memory optimized","operatingSystem":"SUSE","physicalProcessor":"Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)","clockSpeed":"2.3 GHz","ecu":"Variable","networkPerformance":"Up to 10 Gigabit","servicename":"Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud","instanceType":"r4.xlarge","tenancy":"Shared","usagetype":"USW2-BoxUsage:r4.xlarge","normalizationSizeFactor":"8","processorFeatures":"Intel AVX, Intel AVX2, Intel Turbo","servicecode":"AmazonEC2","licenseModel":"No License required","currentGeneration":"Yes","preInstalledSw":"NA","location":"US West (Oregon)","processorArchitecture":"64-bit","operation":"RunInstances:000g"},...

Example 2: Returns data for Amazon EC2 in the us-east-1 region filtered by volume types of 'General Purpose' that are SSD-backed.

Get-PLSProduct -ServiceCode AmazonEC2 -Filter @{Type="TERM_MATCH";Field="volumeType";Value="General Purpose"},@{Type="TERM_MATCH";Field="storageMedia";Value="SSD-backed"} -Region us-east-1

Output:

{"product":{"productFamily":"Storage","attributes":{"storageMedia":"SSD-backed","maxThroughputvolume":"160 MB/sec","volumeType":"General Purpose","maxIopsvolume":"10000",...

  • For API details, see GetProducts in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5).

The following code example shows how to use Get-PLSService.

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Example 1: Returns the metadata for all available service codes in the us-east-1 region.

Get-PLSService -Region us-east-1

Output:

AttributeNames                                                  ServiceCode
--------------                                                  -----------
{productFamily, servicecode, groupDescription, termType...}     AWSBudgets
{productFamily, servicecode, termType, usagetype...}            AWSCloudTrail
{productFamily, servicecode, termType, usagetype...}            AWSCodeCommit
{productFamily, servicecode, termType, usagetype...}            AWSCodeDeploy
{productFamily, servicecode, termType, usagetype...}            AWSCodePipeline
{productFamily, servicecode, termType, usagetype...}            AWSConfig
...

Example 2: Returns the metadata for the Amazon EC2 service in the us-east-1 region.

Get-PLSService -ServiceCode AmazonEC2 -Region us-east-1

Output:

AttributeNames                                                         ServiceCode
--------------                                                         -----------
{volumeType, maxIopsvolume, instanceCapacity10xlarge, locationType...} AmazonEC2

  • For API details, see DescribeServices in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference (V5).