euca-describe-availability-zones

Shows information about availability zones.

Syntax

euca-describe-availability-zones [ zone ] [[--filter "name=value"] ...]

Options

Option Description Required
zone One or more availability zone names. Leave blank to return all availability zones. No
-F, --filter name=value Filter for limiting the results. See the table in the Available Filters section for a list of filters. Use quotation marks if the value has a space ("name=value example"). On a Windows system, use quotation marks even without a space in the value ("name=value"). No

Available Filters

You can add filters to your request so that the response includes information for only certain availability zones. For example, you can use a filter to return only the availability zones that have a specific name. Some tips for using filters with this command:

The following are the available filters for euca-describe-availability-zones:

Filter Description
zone-name Name of the zone

Common Options

Option Description
--show-empty-fields Show empty fields as "(nil)".
--region user@region Region and/or user name to search when looking up config file data. Only valid for EC2 endpoints.
-U,--url url URL of the cloud service to connect to. For administrative commands, this should be <ip_address>:8773/services/Empyrean.
-I,--access-key-id key_id User's access key ID.
-S,--secret-key secret_key User's secret key.
--security-token token User's security token.
--debug Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools.
--debugger Enable interactive debugger on error.
-h,--help Display the manual page for the command.
--version Display the version of this tool.

Output

Example

As a user:

 euca-describe-availability-zones
AVAILABILITYZONE    zone00  192.168.37.5
arn:euca:eucalyptus:zone00:cluster:zone00-cc00/
x