Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
API Reference (API Version 2013-02-01)
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DeletePlacementGroup

Description

Deletes a placement group from your account. You must terminate all instances in the placement group before deleting it. For more information about placement groups and cluster instances, see Using Cluster Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

GroupName

The name of the placement group.

Type: String

Default: None

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned in a DeletePlacementGroupResponse element.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

return

Returns true if the request succeeds. Otherwise, returns an error.

Type: xsd:boolean

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes the placement group named XYZ-cluster.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeletePlacementGroup
&GroupName=XYZ-cluster
&AUTHPARAMS

Example Response

<DeletePlacementGroupResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-02-01/">
   <requestId>d4904fd9-82c2-4ea5-adfe-a9cc3EXAMPLE</requestId>
   <return>true</return>
</DeletePlacementGroupResponse>