When you no longer want to use an On-Demand Dedicated Host it can be released.
On-Demand billing is stopped and the host goes into released state. The
host ID of Dedicated Hosts that have been released can no longer be specified in another
request, for example, to modify the host. You must stop or terminate all instances on a
host before it can be released.
When Dedicated Hosts are released, it may take some time for them to stop counting toward your limit and you may receive capacity errors when trying to allocate new Dedicated Hosts. Wait a few minutes and then try again.
Released hosts still appear in a DescribeHosts response.
Request Parameters
For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- HostId.N
-
The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts to release.
Type: Array of strings
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
- successful
-
The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts that were successfully released.
Type: Array of strings
- unsuccessful
-
The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts that could not be released, including an error message.
Type: Array of UnsuccessfulItem objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
Examples
Example
This releases a Dedicated Host successfully.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ReleaseHosts
&HostId=h-00548908djdsgfs
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<ReleaseHostsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>d4904fd9-82c2-4ea5-adfe-a9cc3EXAMPLE</requestId>
<unsuccessful/>
<successful>
<item>h-00548908djdsgfs</item>
</successful>
</ReleaseHostsResponse>Example
This request is unsuccessful.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ReleaseHosts
&HostId=h-00548908djdsgfs
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<ReleaseHostsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>d4904fd9-82c2-4ea5-adfe-a9cc3EXAMPLE</requestId>
<unsuccessful>
<item>
<error>
<message>Dedicated host 'h-00548908djdsgfs' cannot be released as it is occupied</message>
<code>Client.InvalidHost.Occupied</code<
</error>
<resourceId>h-00548908djdsgfs</resourceId>
</item>
</unsuccessful>
<successful/>
</ReleaseHostsResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
