POST /#Action=PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering

Purchases a Reserved Instance for use with your account. With Reserved Instances, you pay a lower hourly rate compared to On-Demand instance pricing.

Use DescribeReservedInstancesOfferings to get a list of Reserved Instance offerings that match your specifications. After you've purchased a Reserved Instance, you can check for your new Reserved Instance with DescribeReservedInstances.

To queue a purchase for a future date and time, specify a purchase time. If you do not specify a purchase time, the default is the current time.

For more information, see Reserved Instances and Reserved Instance Marketplace in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

We are retiring EC2-Classic. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

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:

  • "PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
InstanceCount Integer Yes

The number of Reserved Instances to purchase.

ReservedInstancesOfferingId String Yes

The ID of the Reserved Instance offering to purchase.

PurchaseTime String No

The time at which to purchase the Reserved Instance, in UTC format (for example, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).

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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