AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DescribeReservedInstances API operation.

Syntax

Get-EC2ReservedInstance
-ReservedInstancesId <String[]>
-Filter <Filter[]>
-OfferingType <OfferingTypeValues>
-OfferingClass <OfferingClassType>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>

Description

Describes one or more of the Reserved Instances that you purchased. For more information about Reserved Instances, see Reserved Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Parameters

-Filter <Filter[]>
One or more filters.
  • availability-zone - The Availability Zone where the Reserved Instance can be used.
  • duration - The duration of the Reserved Instance (one year or three years), in seconds (31536000 | 94608000).
  • end - The time when the Reserved Instance expires (for example, 2015-08-07T11:54:42.000Z).
  • fixed-price - The purchase price of the Reserved Instance (for example, 9800.0).
  • instance-type - The instance type that is covered by the reservation.
  • scope - The scope of the Reserved Instance (Region or Availability Zone).
  • product-description - The Reserved Instance product platform description. Instances that include (Amazon VPC) in the product platform description will only be displayed to EC2-Classic account holders and are for use with Amazon VPC (Linux/UNIX | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC) | SUSE Linux | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC) | Windows | Windows (Amazon VPC) | Windows with SQL Server Standard | Windows with SQL Server Standard (Amazon VPC) | Windows with SQL Server Web | Windows with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC) | Windows with SQL Server Enterprise | Windows with SQL Server Enterprise (Amazon VPC)).
  • reserved-instances-id - The ID of the Reserved Instance.
  • start - The time at which the Reserved Instance purchase request was placed (for example, 2014-08-07T11:54:42.000Z).
  • state - The state of the Reserved Instance (payment-pending | active | payment-failed | retired).
  • tag:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.
  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.
  • usage-price - The usage price of the Reserved Instance, per hour (for example, 0.84).
Required?False
Position?2
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesFilters
-OfferingClass <OfferingClassType>
Describes whether the Reserved Instance is Standard or Convertible.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-OfferingType <OfferingTypeValues>
The Reserved Instance offering type. If you are using tools that predate the 2011-11-01 API version, you only have access to the Medium Utilization Reserved Instance offering type.
Required?False
Position?3
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the ReservedInstancesId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^ReservedInstancesId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ReservedInstancesId <String[]>
One or more Reserved Instance IDs.Default: Describes all your Reserved Instances, or only those otherwise specified.
Required?False
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
AliasesReservedInstancesIds
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'ReservedInstances'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeReservedInstancesResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeReservedInstancesResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases AK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>

Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)

If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials. Note that the encrypted credential file is not supported on all platforms. It will be skipped when searching for profiles on Windows Nano Server, Mac, and Linux platforms.

If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.

As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases AWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases AWSProfileName, StoredCredentials
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases SecretAccessKey, SK
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases ST
-Region <String>
The system name of the AWS region in which the operation should be invoked. For example, us-east-1, eu-west-1 etc.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)
Aliases RegionToCall
-EndpointUrl <String>

The endpoint to make the call against.

Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? True (ByPropertyName)

Inputs

System.String[]
You can pipe a String[] object to this cmdlet for the ReservedInstancesId parameter.

Outputs

Amazon.EC2.Model.ReservedInstances or Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeReservedInstancesResponse
This cmdlet returns a collection of Amazon.EC2.Model.ReservedInstances objects. The service call response (type Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeReservedInstancesResponse) can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.
User Guide
Service API Reference
Microsoft Windows Guide
VPC User Guide
AWS Tools for PowerShell User Guide

Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z