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ec2-create-spot-datafeed-subscription
Description
Creates the data feed 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, see Spot Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
The short version of this command is ec2addsds.
Syntax
ec2-create-spot-datafeed-subscription --bucket
bucket [--prefix
prefix]
Options
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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. Required: Yes Example: |
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A prefix for the datafeed files. Type: String Default: None Required: No Example: |
Common Options
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Overrides the region specified by the Default: The value of the Example: |
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The uniform resource locator (URL) of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The private key that identifies you to Amazon EC2. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate that identifies you to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The access key ID associated with your AWS account. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are. Default: The value of the Example: Note For more information, see the following section, Deprecated Options. |
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The secret access key associated with your AWS account. Default: The value of the Example: Note For more information, see the following section, Deprecated Options. |
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The AWS delegation token. Default: The value of the environment variable (if set). |
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The connection timeout, in seconds. Example: |
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The request timeout, in seconds. Example: |
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Displays verbose output, including the API request and response on the command line. This is useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our Query API. |
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Includes column headers in the command output. |
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Shows empty columns as |
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Omits tags for tagged resources. |
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Displays internal debugging information. This can assist us when helping you troubleshooting problems. |
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Displays usage information for the command. |
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Reads arguments from standard input. This is useful when piping the output from one command to the input of another. Example: |
Deprecated Options
For a limited time, you can still use the private key and X.509 certificate instead of your access key ID and secret access key. However, we recommend that you start using your access key ID (-O, --aws-access-key) and secret access key (-W, --aws-secret-key) now, as the private key (-K, --private-key) and X.509 certificate (-C, --cert) won't be supported after the transition period elapses. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are.
| Option | Description |
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The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
Output
This command returns a table that contains the following information:
The SPOTDATAFEEDSUBSCRIPTION identifier
The AWS account ID of the owner
The Amazon S3 bucket where the data feed is located
The prefix for the data feed files
The state (
Active|Inactive)
Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.
Examples
Example Request
This example creates the data feed for the account.
PROMPT>ec2-create-spot-datafeed-subscription -b myawsbucket -p spotdata_SPOTDATAFEEDSUBSCRIPTION AWSAccountNo1; myawsbucket spotdata_ Active
