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Describes the Regions that are enabled for your account, or all Regions.

For a list of the Regions supported by Amazon EC2, see Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud endpoints and quotas.

For information about enabling and disabling Regions for your account, see Managing Amazon Web Services Regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

get/#Action=DescribeRegions

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>endpoint</code> - The endpoint of the Region (for example, <code>ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com</code>).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>opt-in-status</code> - The opt-in status of the Region (<code>opt-in-not-required</code> | <code>opted-in</code> | <code>not-opted-in</code>).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>region-name</code> - The name of the Region (for example, <code>us-east-1</code>).</p> </li> </ul>
RegionNamestring[]

The names of the Regions. You can specify any Regions, whether they are enabled and disabled for your account.

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>.

AllRegionsboolean

Indicates whether to display all Regions, including Regions that are disabled for your account.

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

Response

Success