This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.Get-VBRAmazonEC2InstanceType
Short Description
Returns an array of Amazon EC2 instances.
Applies to
Platform: VMware, Hyper-V
Product Edition: Community, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus
Syntax
Detailed Description
This cmdlet returns an array of Amazon EC2 instance types that are available for the specified AWS region. It also returns the information about the memory and the CPU available for each instance type.
Parameters
Parameter | Description | Required | Position | Accept | Accept |
Region | Specifies an AWS region. The cmdlet will return an array of Amazon EC2 instance types that are available for the specified AWS region. Accepts the VBRAmazonEC2Region type. | True | Named | False |
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Name | Specifies the name of the Amazon EC2 instance type. The cmdlet will return the instance type with this name. | False | Named | False |
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This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information about common parameters, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216.
Return Type
Example
This example shows how to get an array of all instance types from the specified AWS region. The cmdlet will return all instance types from the ap-northeast-1 AWS region.
- Run Get-VBRAmazonAccount to get Amazon EC2 credentials records. Save the result to the $account variable.
- Run Get-VBRAmazonEC2Region with the $account variable. Use the RegionType parameter to specify the AWS region and the Name parameter to specify the name of the AWS region. Save the result to the $region variable.
- Run Get-VBRAmazonEC2InstanceType with the $region variable.
$account = Get-VBRAmazonAccount -Id "936edf7c-7cf3-4dbd-9895-c7485ef4bb2c" $region = Get-VBRAmazonEC2Region -Account $account -RegionType Global -Name "ap-northeast-1" Get-VBRAmazonEC2InstanceType -Region $region |
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