EC2: Get-EC2SpotInstanceRequest Cmdlet | AWS Tools for PowerShell (original) (raw)

Describes the specified Spot Instance requests. You can use

DescribeSpotInstanceRequests

to find a running Spot Instance by examining the response. If the status of the Spot Instance is

fulfilled

, the instance ID appears in the response and contains the identifier of the instance. Alternatively, you can use DescribeInstances with a filter to look for instances where the instance lifecycle is

spot

. We recommend that you set

MaxResults

to a value between 5 and 1000 to limit the number of items returned. This paginates the output, which makes the list more manageable and returns the items faster. If the list of items exceeds your

MaxResults

value, then that number of items is returned along with a

NextToken

value that can be passed to a subsequent

DescribeSpotInstanceRequests

request to retrieve the remaining items. Spot Instance requests are deleted four hours after they are canceled and their instances are terminated.

This cmdlet automatically pages all available results to the pipeline - parameters related to iteration are only needed if you want to manually control the paginated output. To disable autopagination, use -NoAutoIteration.