| Euca2ools Guide / EC2-Compatible Commands | |
Shows information about instance types.
euca-describe-instance-types instance_types [--by-zone] [--show-capacity]
| Option | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| instance_type | Instance type to describe | No |
| --by-zone | Show information for each availability zone separately | No |
| --show-capacity | Show information about instance capacity | No |
| 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. |
The following example shows the request and output for a simple command.
euca-describe-instance-types INSTANCETYPE Name CPUs Memory (MB) Disk (GB) INSTANCETYPE m1.small 1 256 5 INSTANCETYPE t1.micro 1 256 5 INSTANCETYPE m1.medium 1 512 10 INSTANCETYPE c1.medium 2 512 10 INSTANCETYPE m1.large 2 512 10 INSTANCETYPE m1.xlarge 2 1024 10 INSTANCETYPE c1.xlarge 2 2048 10 INSTANCETYPE m2.xlarge 2 2048 10 INSTANCETYPE m3.xlarge 4 2048 15 INSTANCETYPE m2.2xlarge 2 4096 30 INSTANCETYPE m3.2xlarge 4 4096 30 INSTANCETYPE cc1.4xlarge 8 3072 60 INSTANCETYPE m2.4xlarge 8 4096 60 INSTANCETYPE hi1.4xlarge 8 6144 120 INSTANCETYPE cc2.8xlarge 16 6144 120 INSTANCETYPE cg1.4xlarge 16 12288 200 INSTANCETYPE cr1.8xlarge 16 16384 240 INSTANCETYPE hs1.8xlarge 48 119808 24000