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Aliyun/AlibabaCloud ECS (Compute)

ECS

  • Check availability/Stock in a given region
aliyun ecs DescribeAvailableResource \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --InstanceType ecs.g6.large \
    --DestinationResource InstanceType \
    | jq -r '.AvailableZones.AvailableZone[] | ("=>", .ZoneId, .StatusCategory, .Status, .StatusCategory)'
  • Describe instances attributes
aliyun ecs DescribeInstances \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --VpcId ${VPC_ID} \
    |jq -r '.Instances.Instance[] | ("--", .HostName, .ZoneId, .VpcAttributes.VpcId, .VpcAttributes.VSwitchId)'
  • Describe instances (+VSwitch filter)
aliyun ecs DescribeInstances \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --VpcId ${VPC_ID} |jq -r '.Instances.Instance[].VpcAttributes.VSwitchId' |sort |uniq -c

CLI Endpoint

Using cli in different endpoints

  • Global Endpoint 

    $(which time) aliyun ecs DescribeAvailableResource \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --InstanceType ecs.g6.large \
    --DestinationResource InstanceType >/dev/null

  • Global endpoint for the service as argument

ALI_ENDPOINT="ecs.aliyuncs.com"
dig +short ${ALI_ENDPOINT}
$(which time) aliyun ecs DescribeAvailableResource \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --InstanceType ecs.g6.large \
    --DestinationResource InstanceType \
    --endpoint ${ALI_ENDPOINT} >/dev/null
  • Regional endpoint for us-east-1
ALI_ENDPOINT="ecs.us-east-1.aliyuncs.com"
dig +short ${ALI_ENDPOINT}
$(which time) aliyun ecs DescribeAvailableResource \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --InstanceType ecs.g6.large \
    --DestinationResource InstanceType \
    --endpoint ${ALI_ENDPOINT} >/dev/null
  • Regional endpoint for cn-hangzhou 
    ALI_ENDPOINT="ecs-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com"
dig +short ${ALI_ENDPOINT}
$(which time) aliyun ecs DescribeAvailableResource \
    --RegionId us-east-1 \
    --InstanceType ecs.g6.large \
    --DestinationResource InstanceType \
    --endpoint ${ALI_ENDPOINT} >/dev/null
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