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Use DescribeSpotFleetInstances 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 DescribeSpotFleetInstances with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeSpotFleetInstances.

CLI
AWS CLI

To describe the Spot Instances associated with a Spot fleet

This example command lists the Spot instances associated with the specified Spot fleet.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-spot-fleet-instances --spot-fleet-request-id sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE

Output:

{ "ActiveInstances": [ { "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0", "InstanceType": "m3.medium", "SpotInstanceRequestId": "sir-08b93456" }, ... ], "SpotFleetRequestId": "sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE" }
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example describes the instances associated with the specified Spot fleet request.

Get-EC2SpotFleetInstance -SpotFleetRequestId sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE

Output:

InstanceId InstanceType SpotInstanceRequestId ---------- ------------ --------------------- i-f089262a c3.large sir-12345678 i-7e8b24a4 c3.large sir-87654321
AWS CLI

To describe the Spot Instances associated with a Spot fleet

This example command lists the Spot instances associated with the specified Spot fleet.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-spot-fleet-instances --spot-fleet-request-id sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE

Output:

{ "ActiveInstances": [ { "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0", "InstanceType": "m3.medium", "SpotInstanceRequestId": "sir-08b93456" }, ... ], "SpotFleetRequestId": "sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE" }
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