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Use CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

Use CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription.

CLI
AWS CLI

To create a Spot Instance data feed

The following create-spot-datafeed-subscription example creates a Spot Instance data feed.

aws ec2 create-spot-datafeed-subscription \ --bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket \ --prefix spot-data-feed

Output:

{ "SpotDatafeedSubscription": { "Bucket": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket", "OwnerId": "123456789012", "Prefix": "spot-data-feed", "State": "Active" } }

The data feed is stored in the Amazon S3 bucket that you specified. The file names for this data feed have the following format.

amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/spot-data-feed/123456789012.YYYY-MM-DD-HH.n.abcd1234.gz

For more information, see Spot Instance data feed in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example creates a Spot instance data feed.

New-EC2SpotDatafeedSubscription -Bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket -Prefix spotdata

Output:

Bucket : my-s3-bucket Fault : OwnerId : 123456789012 Prefix : spotdata State : Active
AWS CLI

To create a Spot Instance data feed

The following create-spot-datafeed-subscription example creates a Spot Instance data feed.

aws ec2 create-spot-datafeed-subscription \ --bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket \ --prefix spot-data-feed

Output:

{ "SpotDatafeedSubscription": { "Bucket": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket", "OwnerId": "123456789012", "Prefix": "spot-data-feed", "State": "Active" } }

The data feed is stored in the Amazon S3 bucket that you specified. The file names for this data feed have the following format.

amzn-s3-demo-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/spot-data-feed/123456789012.YYYY-MM-DD-HH.n.abcd1234.gz

For more information, see Spot Instance data feed in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

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