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POST /#Action=DescribeHosts

Describes the specified Dedicated Hosts or all your Dedicated Hosts.

The results describe only the Dedicated Hosts in the Region you're currently using. All listed instances consume capacity on your Dedicated Host. Dedicated Hosts that have recently been released are listed with the state released.

Servers

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
X-Amz-Content-Sha256 String No
X-Amz-Credential String No
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "text/xml"
X-Amz-Date String No
X-Amz-Algorithm String No
X-Amz-SignedHeaders String No
X-Amz-Security-Token String No
X-Amz-Signature String No

Query parameters

Name Type Required Description
Version String Yes

Possible values:

  • "2016-11-15"
MaxResults String No

Pagination limit
NextToken String No

Pagination token
Action String Yes

Possible values:

  • "DescribeHosts"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
Filter[] Array No

The filters.

  • auto-placement - Whether auto-placement is enabled or disabled (on | off).

  • availability-zone - The Availability Zone of the host.

  • client-token - The idempotency token that you provided when you allocated the host.

  • host-reservation-id - The ID of the reservation assigned to this host.

  • instance-type - The instance type size that the Dedicated Host is configured to support.

  • state - The allocation state of the Dedicated Host (available | under-assessment | permanent-failure | released | released-permanent-failure).

  • 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.
HostIds[] Array No

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts. The IDs are used for targeted instance launches.
MaxResults Integer No

The maximum number of results to return for the request in a single page. The remaining results can be seen by sending another request with the returned nextToken value. This value can be between 5 and 500. If maxResults is given a larger value than 500, you receive an error.

You cannot specify this parameter and the host IDs parameter in the same request.
NextToken String No

The token to use to retrieve the next page of results.

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  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.
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