AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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The attributes for the instance types. When you specify instance attributes, Amazon EC2 will identify instance types with these attributes.

You must specify VCpuCount and MemoryMiB. All other attributes are optional. Any unspecified optional attribute is set to its default.

When you specify multiple attributes, you get instance types that satisfy all of the specified attributes. If you specify multiple values for an attribute, you get instance types that satisfy any of the specified values.

To limit the list of instance types from which Amazon EC2 can identify matching instance types, you can use one of the following parameters, but not both in the same request:

If you specify InstanceRequirements, you can't specify InstanceType.

Attribute-based instance type selection is only supported when using Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet to launch instances. If you plan to use the launch template in the launch instance wizard or with the RunInstances API, you can't specify InstanceRequirements.

For more information, see Create mixed instances group using attribute-based instance type selection in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide, and also Specify attributes for instance type selection for EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet and Spot placement score in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.EC2.Model.InstanceRequirements

Namespace: Amazon.EC2.Model
Assembly: AWSSDK.EC2.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public class InstanceRequirements

The InstanceRequirements type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method InstanceRequirements()

Properties

NameTypeDescription
Public Property AcceleratorCount Amazon.EC2.Model.AcceleratorCount

Gets and sets the property AcceleratorCount.

The minimum and maximum number of accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, or Amazon Web Services Inferentia chips) on an instance.

To exclude accelerator-enabled instance types, set Max to 0.

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property AcceleratorManufacturers System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property AcceleratorManufacturers.

Indicates whether instance types must have accelerators by specific manufacturers.

  • For instance types with Amazon Web Services devices, specify amazon-web-services.

  • For instance types with AMD devices, specify amd.

  • For instance types with Habana devices, specify habana.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA devices, specify nvidia.

  • For instance types with Xilinx devices, specify xilinx.

Default: Any manufacturer

Public Property AcceleratorNames System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property AcceleratorNames.

The accelerators that must be on the instance type.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA A10G GPUs, specify a10g.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA A100 GPUs, specify a100.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA H100 GPUs, specify h100.

  • For instance types with Amazon Web Services Inferentia chips, specify inferentia.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA GRID K520 GPUs, specify k520.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA K80 GPUs, specify k80.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA M60 GPUs, specify m60.

  • For instance types with AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, specify radeon-pro-v520.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA T4 GPUs, specify t4.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA T4G GPUs, specify t4g.

  • For instance types with Xilinx VU9P FPGAs, specify vu9p.

  • For instance types with NVIDIA V100 GPUs, specify v100.

Default: Any accelerator

Public Property AcceleratorTotalMemoryMiB Amazon.EC2.Model.AcceleratorTotalMemoryMiB

Gets and sets the property AcceleratorTotalMemoryMiB.

The minimum and maximum amount of total accelerator memory, in MiB.

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property AcceleratorTypes System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property AcceleratorTypes.

The accelerator types that must be on the instance type.

  • For instance types with GPU accelerators, specify gpu.

  • For instance types with FPGA accelerators, specify fpga.

Default: Any accelerator type

Public Property AllowedInstanceTypes System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property AllowedInstanceTypes.

The instance types to apply your specified attributes against. All other instance types are ignored, even if they match your specified attributes.

You can use strings with one or more wild cards, represented by an asterisk (*), to allow an instance type, size, or generation. The following are examples: m5.8xlarge, c5*.*, m5a.*, r*, *3*.

For example, if you specify c5*,Amazon EC2 will allow the entire C5 instance family, which includes all C5a and C5n instance types. If you specify m5a.*, Amazon EC2 will allow all the M5a instance types, but not the M5n instance types.

If you specify AllowedInstanceTypes, you can't specify ExcludedInstanceTypes.

Default: All instance types

Public Property BareMetal Amazon.EC2.BareMetal

Gets and sets the property BareMetal.

Indicates whether bare metal instance types must be included, excluded, or required.

  • To include bare metal instance types, specify included.

  • To require only bare metal instance types, specify required.

  • To exclude bare metal instance types, specify excluded.

Default: excluded

Public Property BaselineEbsBandwidthMbps Amazon.EC2.Model.BaselineEbsBandwidthMbps

Gets and sets the property BaselineEbsBandwidthMbps.

The minimum and maximum baseline bandwidth to Amazon EBS, in Mbps. For more information, see Amazon EBS–optimized instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property BurstablePerformance Amazon.EC2.BurstablePerformance

Gets and sets the property BurstablePerformance.

Indicates whether burstable performance T instance types are included, excluded, or required. For more information, see Burstable performance instances.

  • To include burstable performance instance types, specify included.

  • To require only burstable performance instance types, specify required.

  • To exclude burstable performance instance types, specify excluded.

Default: excluded

Public Property CpuManufacturers System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property CpuManufacturers.

The CPU manufacturers to include.

  • For instance types with Intel CPUs, specify intel.

  • For instance types with AMD CPUs, specify amd.

  • For instance types with Amazon Web Services CPUs, specify amazon-web-services.

Don't confuse the CPU manufacturer with the CPU architecture. Instances will be launched with a compatible CPU architecture based on the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that you specify in your launch template.

Default: Any manufacturer

Public Property ExcludedInstanceTypes System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property ExcludedInstanceTypes.

The instance types to exclude.

You can use strings with one or more wild cards, represented by an asterisk (*), to exclude an instance type, size, or generation. The following are examples: m5.8xlarge, c5*.*, m5a.*, r*, *3*.

For example, if you specify c5*,Amazon EC2 will exclude the entire C5 instance family, which includes all C5a and C5n instance types. If you specify m5a.*, Amazon EC2 will exclude all the M5a instance types, but not the M5n instance types.

If you specify ExcludedInstanceTypes, you can't specify AllowedInstanceTypes.

Default: No excluded instance types

Public Property InstanceGenerations System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property InstanceGenerations.

Indicates whether current or previous generation instance types are included. The current generation instance types are recommended for use. Current generation instance types are typically the latest two to three generations in each instance family. For more information, see Instance types in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

For current generation instance types, specify current.

For previous generation instance types, specify previous.

Default: Current and previous generation instance types

Public Property LocalStorage Amazon.EC2.LocalStorage

Gets and sets the property LocalStorage.

Indicates whether instance types with instance store volumes are included, excluded, or required. For more information, Amazon EC2 instance store in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

  • To include instance types with instance store volumes, specify included.

  • To require only instance types with instance store volumes, specify required.

  • To exclude instance types with instance store volumes, specify excluded.

Default: included

Public Property LocalStorageTypes System.Collections.Generic.List<System.String>

Gets and sets the property LocalStorageTypes.

The type of local storage that is required.

  • For instance types with hard disk drive (HDD) storage, specify hdd.

  • For instance types with solid state drive (SSD) storage, specify ssd.

Default: hdd and ssd

Public Property MaxSpotPriceAsPercentageOfOptimalOnDemandPrice System.Int32

Gets and sets the property MaxSpotPriceAsPercentageOfOptimalOnDemandPrice.

[Price protection] The price protection threshold for Spot Instances, as a percentage of an identified On-Demand price. The identified On-Demand price is the price of the lowest priced current generation C, M, or R instance type with your specified attributes. If no current generation C, M, or R instance type matches your attributes, then the identified price is from the lowest priced current generation instance types, and failing that, from the lowest priced previous generation instance types that match your attributes. When Amazon EC2 selects instance types with your attributes, it will exclude instance types whose price exceeds your specified threshold.

The parameter accepts an integer, which Amazon EC2 interprets as a percentage.

If you set TargetCapacityUnitType to vcpu or memory-mib, the price protection threshold is based on the per vCPU or per memory price instead of the per instance price.

Only one of SpotMaxPricePercentageOverLowestPrice or MaxSpotPriceAsPercentageOfOptimalOnDemandPrice can be specified. If you don't specify either, Amazon EC2 will automatically apply optimal price protection to consistently select from a wide range of instance types. To indicate no price protection threshold for Spot Instances, meaning you want to consider all instance types that match your attributes, include one of these parameters and specify a high value, such as 999999.

Public Property MemoryGiBPerVCpu Amazon.EC2.Model.MemoryGiBPerVCpu

Gets and sets the property MemoryGiBPerVCpu.

The minimum and maximum amount of memory per vCPU, in GiB.

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property MemoryMiB Amazon.EC2.Model.MemoryMiB

Gets and sets the property MemoryMiB.

The minimum and maximum amount of memory, in MiB.

Public Property NetworkBandwidthGbps Amazon.EC2.Model.NetworkBandwidthGbps

Gets and sets the property NetworkBandwidthGbps.

The minimum and maximum amount of network bandwidth, in gigabits per second (Gbps).

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property NetworkInterfaceCount Amazon.EC2.Model.NetworkInterfaceCount

Gets and sets the property NetworkInterfaceCount.

The minimum and maximum number of network interfaces.

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property OnDemandMaxPricePercentageOverLowestPrice System.Int32

Gets and sets the property OnDemandMaxPricePercentageOverLowestPrice.

[Price protection] The price protection threshold for On-Demand Instances, as a percentage higher than an identified On-Demand price. The identified On-Demand price is the price of the lowest priced current generation C, M, or R instance type with your specified attributes. When Amazon EC2 selects instance types with your attributes, it will exclude instance types whose price exceeds your specified threshold.

The parameter accepts an integer, which Amazon EC2 interprets as a percentage.

To turn off price protection, specify a high value, such as 999999.

This parameter is not supported for GetSpotPlacementScores and GetInstanceTypesFromInstanceRequirements.

If you set TargetCapacityUnitType to vcpu or memory-mib, the price protection threshold is applied based on the per-vCPU or per-memory price instead of the per-instance price.

Default: 20

Public Property RequireHibernateSupport System.Boolean

Gets and sets the property RequireHibernateSupport.

Indicates whether instance types must support hibernation for On-Demand Instances.

This parameter is not supported for GetSpotPlacementScores.

Default: false

Public Property SpotMaxPricePercentageOverLowestPrice System.Int32

Gets and sets the property SpotMaxPricePercentageOverLowestPrice.

[Price protection] The price protection threshold for Spot Instances, as a percentage higher than an identified Spot price. The identified Spot price is the Spot price of the lowest priced current generation C, M, or R instance type with your specified attributes. If no current generation C, M, or R instance type matches your attributes, then the identified Spot price is from the lowest priced current generation instance types, and failing that, from the lowest priced previous generation instance types that match your attributes. When Amazon EC2 selects instance types with your attributes, it will exclude instance types whose Spot price exceeds your specified threshold.

The parameter accepts an integer, which Amazon EC2 interprets as a percentage.

If you set TargetCapacityUnitType to vcpu or memory-mib, the price protection threshold is applied based on the per-vCPU or per-memory price instead of the per-instance price.

This parameter is not supported for GetSpotPlacementScores and GetInstanceTypesFromInstanceRequirements.

Only one of SpotMaxPricePercentageOverLowestPrice or MaxSpotPriceAsPercentageOfOptimalOnDemandPrice can be specified. If you don't specify either, Amazon EC2 will automatically apply optimal price protection to consistently select from a wide range of instance types. To indicate no price protection threshold for Spot Instances, meaning you want to consider all instance types that match your attributes, include one of these parameters and specify a high value, such as 999999.

Default: 100

Public Property TotalLocalStorageGB Amazon.EC2.Model.TotalLocalStorageGB

Gets and sets the property TotalLocalStorageGB.

The minimum and maximum amount of total local storage, in GB.

Default: No minimum or maximum limits

Public Property VCpuCount Amazon.EC2.Model.VCpuCountRange

Gets and sets the property VCpuCount.

The minimum and maximum number of vCPUs.

Version Information

.NET:
Supported in: 8.0 and newer, Core 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5 and newer, 3.5