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Describes the specified placement groups or all of your placement groups. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html">Placement groups</a> in the <i>Amazon EC2 User Guide</i>.

get/#Action=DescribePlacementGroups

Query parameters

Namestring

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Valuesstring[]

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an <code>OR</code>, and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

<p>The filters.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>group-name</code> - The name of the placement group.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>group-arn</code> - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the placement group.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>spread-level</code> - The spread level for the placement group (<code>host</code> | <code>rack</code>). </p> </li> <li> <p> <code>state</code> - The state of the placement group (<code>pending</code> | <code>available</code> | <code>deleting</code> | <code>deleted</code>).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>strategy</code> - The strategy of the placement group (<code>cluster</code> | <code>spread</code> | <code>partition</code>).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>tag:&lt;key&gt;</code> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key <code>Owner</code> and the value <code>TeamA</code>, specify <code>tag:Owner</code> for the filter name and <code>TeamA</code> for the filter value.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>tag-key</code> - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources that have a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.</p> </li> </ul>
DryRunboolean

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

GroupNamePlacementGroupName[]
<p>The names of the placement groups.</p> <p>Default: Describes all your placement groups, or only those otherwise specified.</p>
GroupIdstring[]

The IDs of the placement groups.

Action'DescribePlacementGroups' required
Version'2016-11-15' required

Response

Success