This documentation is a draft for private preview for regions in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Documentation content will continue to evolve. Published: January 12, 2026.Create a Capacity Reservation group
You can use the following examples to create a resource group for Capacity Reservations with the following
request parameters.
-
AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool – Ensures that the resource
group can be targeted for instance launches.
-
AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic with allowed-resource-types
set to AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation – Ensures that the resource
group accepts Capacity Reservations only.
After you create a group, you can add Capacity Reservations
to the group.
- AWS CLI
-
To create a group for Capacity Reservations
Use the create-group AWS CLI command.
aws resource-groups create-group \
--name MyCRGroup \
--configuration \
'{"Type": "AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool"}' \
'{"Type": "AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic", "Parameters": [{"Name": "allowed-resource-types", "Values": ["AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation"]}]}'
- PowerShell
-
To create a group for Capacity Reservations
Use the New-RGGroup
cmdlet.
New-RGGroup `
-Name MyCRGroup `
-Configuration `
@{"Type"="AWS::EC2::CapacityReserationPool"} `
@{"Type"="AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic"; "Parameters"=@{"allowed-resource-types"=@{"Values"="AWS::EC2::CapacityReservations"}}}