POST /#Action=DescribeRegions

Describes the Regions that are enabled for your account, or all Regions.

For a list of the Regions supported by Amazon EC2, see Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud endpoints and quotas.

For information about enabling and disabling Regions for your account, see Managing Amazon Web Services Regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

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"
Action String Yes

Possible values:

  • "DescribeRegions"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
Filters[] Array No

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).

RegionNames[] Array No

The names of the Regions. You can specify any Regions, whether they are enabled and disabled for your account.

AllRegions Boolean No

Indicates whether to display all Regions, including Regions that are disabled for your account.

DryRun Boolean No

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 is UnauthorizedOperation.

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