Use CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription with an AWS SDK or 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 my-bucket \
    --prefix spot-data-feed

Output:

{
    "SpotDatafeedSubscription": {
        "Bucket": "my-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.

my-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 Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux Instances.

• For API details, see CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription in AWS CLI Command Reference.

PowerShell

Tools for PowerShell

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

New-EC2SpotDatafeedSubscription -Bucket my-s3-bucket -Prefix spotdata

Output:

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

• For API details, see CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.