CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription

Description

Creates the datafeed for Spot Instances, enabling you to view Spot Instance usage logs. You can create one data feed per account. For more information about Spot Instances, go to Using Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`Bucket`	The Amazon S3 bucket in which to store the Spot Instance datafeed. Type: String Default: None Constraints: Must be a valid bucket associated with your account.	Yes
`Prefix`	Prefix that is prepended to datafeed files. Type: String Default: None	No

Bucket

The Amazon S3 bucket in which to store the Spot Instance datafeed.

Type: String

Default: None

Constraints: Must be a valid bucket associated with your account.

Yes

Prefix

Prefix that is prepended to datafeed files.

Type: String

Default: None

No

Response Elements

The elements in the following table are wrapped in a CreateSpotDatafeedSubscriptionResponse structure.

Name Description

Name	Description
`requestId`	The ID of the request. Type: xsd:string
`spotDatafeedSubscription`	Datafeed subscription. Type: SpotDatafeedSubscriptionType

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

spotDatafeedSubscription

Datafeed subscription.

Type: SpotDatafeedSubscriptionType

Examples

Example Request

This example creates the data feed for the account.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription
&Bucket=my-bucket
&AUTHPARAMS

Example Response

<CreateSpotDatafeedSubscriptionResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-01-01/">
    <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
    <spotDatafeedSubscription>
        <ownerId>254933287430</ownerId>
        <bucket>my-bucket</bucket>
        <prefix/>
        <state>Active</state>
    </spotDatafeedSubscription>
</CreateSpotDatafeedSubscriptionResponse>