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Place an Instance in an Availability Zone

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Recipe · 3 steps

Place an Instance in an Availability Zone

with Amazon EC2 · IT Infrastructure Management

Survey regions and zones, then launch an instance.

  1. List the regions enabled for the account.
  2. List the availability zones in the current region.
  3. Launch an instance into the selected placement.
What you'll need to have ready
  • imageId: The AMI ID to launch the instance from.
  • instanceType: The EC2 instance type to launch.
  • subnetId: Optional subnet ID identifying the target zone placement.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow amazon-ec2:place-instance-in-zone, 3 operations: DescribeRegions → DescribeAvailabilityZones → RunInstances. Specs on APIs.io.