Cancels one or more Spot Instance requests.
Important
Canceling a Spot Instance request does not terminate running Spot Instances associated with the request.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- DryRun
-
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is
DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- SpotInstanceRequestId.N
-
The IDs of the Spot Instance requests.
Type: Array of strings
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
- spotInstanceRequestSet
-
The Spot Instance requests.
Type: Array of CancelledSpotInstanceRequest objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
Examples
Example
This example cancels the specified Spot Instance request.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CancelSpotInstanceRequests
&SpotInstanceRequestId.1=sir-1a2b3c4d
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<CancelSpotInstanceRequestsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>
<spotInstanceRequestSet>
<item>
<spotInstanceRequestId>sir-1a2b3c4d</spotInstanceRequestId>
<state>cancelled</state>
</item>
</spotInstanceRequestSet>
</CancelSpotInstanceRequestsResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
