Describes the Regions that are enabled for your account, or all Regions.
For a list of the Regions supported by Amazon EC2, see Amazon EC2 service endpoints.
For information about enabling and disabling Regions for your account, see Specify which AWS Regions your account can use in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.
Note
The order of the elements in the response, including those within nested structures, might vary. Applications should not assume the elements appear in a particular order.
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.
- AllRegions
-
Indicates whether to display all Regions, including Regions that are disabled for your account.
Type: Boolean
Required: No
- 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
- Filter.N
-
The filters.
-
endpoint- The endpoint of the Region (for example,ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com). -
opt-in-status- The opt-in status of the Region (opt-in-not-required|opted-in|not-opted-in). -
region-name- The name of the Region (for example,us-east-1).
Type: Array of Filter objects
Required: No
-
- RegionName.N
-
The names of the Regions. You can specify any Regions, whether they are enabled and disabled for your account.
Type: Array of strings
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- regionInfo
-
Information about the Regions.
Type: Array of Region objects
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
Examples
Example 1
This example displays information about all Regions enabled for your account.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeRegions
&AUTHPARAMSExample 2
This example displays information about all Regions, even the Regions that are disabled for your account.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeRegions
&AllRegions=true
&AUTHPARAMSExample 3
This example displays information about the specified Regions only.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeRegions
&RegionName.1=us-east-1
&RegionName.2=eu-west-1
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<DescribeRegionsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>
<regionInfo>
<item>
<regionName>us-east-1</regionName>
<regionEndpoint>ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com</regionEndpoint>
</item>
<item>
<regionName>eu-west-1</regionName>
<regionEndpoint>ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com</regionEndpoint>
</item>
</regionInfo>
</DescribeRegionsResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
