The DescribeAvailabilityZones operation describes availability zones that are currently available to the account and their states.
Availability zones are not the same across accounts. The availability zone
us-east-1a for account A is not necessarily the same as us-east-1a
for account B. Zone assignments are mapped independently for each account.
Access
public
Parameters
Parameter |
Type |
Required |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Optional |
An associative array of parameters that can have the following keys:
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Returns
Type |
Description |
|---|---|
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A |
Examples
Describe all availability zones.
$ec2 = new AmazonEC2(); $response = $ec2->describe_availability_zones(); var_dump($response->isOK());Result:
bool(true)
Describe a single availability zone.
$ec2 = new AmazonEC2(); $response = $ec2->describe_availability_zones(array( 'ZoneName' => 'us-east-1a' )); var_dump($response->isOK());Result:
bool(true)
Describe multiple availability zones.
$ec2 = new AmazonEC2(); $response = $ec2->describe_availability_zones(array( 'ZoneName' => array( 'us-east-1a', 'us-east-1b', 'us-east-1c' ) )); var_dump($response->isOK());Result:
bool(true)
Filter availability zones.
$ec2 = new AmazonEC2();
$response = $ec2->describe_availability_zones(array(
'Filter' => array(
array('Name' => 'state', 'Value' => 'available')
)
));
var_dump($response->isOK());
Result:
bool(true)
Related Methods
Source
Method defined in services/ec2.class.php | Toggle source view (24 lines) | View on GitHub

