POST /#Action=DescribeScheduledInstanceAvailability

Finds available schedules that meet the specified criteria.

You can search for an available schedule no more than 3 months in advance. You must meet the minimum required duration of 1,200 hours per year. For example, the minimum daily schedule is 4 hours, the minimum weekly schedule is 24 hours, and the minimum monthly schedule is 100 hours.

After you find a schedule that meets your needs, call PurchaseScheduledInstances to purchase Scheduled Instances with that schedule.

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:

  • "DescribeScheduledInstanceAvailability"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
MinSlotDurationInHours Integer No

The minimum available duration, in hours. The minimum required duration is 1,200 hours per year. For example, the minimum daily schedule is 4 hours, the minimum weekly schedule is 24 hours, and the minimum monthly schedule is 100 hours.

MaxResults Integer No

The maximum number of results to return in a single call. This value can be between 5 and 300. The default value is 300. To retrieve the remaining results, make another call with the returned NextToken value.

Filters[] Array No

The filters.

  • availability-zone - The Availability Zone (for example, us-west-2a).

  • instance-type - The instance type (for example, c4.large).

  • network-platform - The network platform (EC2-Classic or EC2-VPC).

  • platform - The platform (Linux/UNIX or Windows).

NextToken String No

The token for the next set of results.

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.

MaxSlotDurationInHours Integer No

The maximum available duration, in hours. This value must be greater than MinSlotDurationInHours and less than 1,720.

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