AvailabilityZone - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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AvailabilityZone

Describes Availability Zones, Local Zones, and Wavelength Zones.

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groupLongName

The long name of the Availability Zone group, Local Zone group, or Wavelength Zone group.

Type: String

Required: No

groupName

The name of the zone group. For example:

  • Availability Zones - us-east-1-zg-1

  • Local Zones - us-west-2-lax-1

  • Wavelength Zones - us-east-1-wl1-bos-wlz-1

Type: String

Required: No

messageSet

Any messages about the Availability Zone, Local Zone, or Wavelength Zone.

Type: Array of AvailabilityZoneMessage objects

Required: No

networkBorderGroup

The name of the network border group.

Type: String

Required: No

optInStatus

For Availability Zones, this parameter always has the value of opt-in-not-required.

For Local Zones and Wavelength Zones, this parameter is the opt-in status. The possible values are opted-in and not-opted-in.

Type: String

Valid Values: opt-in-not-required | opted-in | not-opted-in

Required: No

parentZoneId

The ID of the zone that handles some of the Local Zone or Wavelength Zone control plane operations, such as API calls.

Type: String

Required: No

parentZoneName

The name of the zone that handles some of the Local Zone or Wavelength Zone control plane operations, such as API calls.

Type: String

Required: No

regionName

The name of the Region.

Type: String

Required: No

zoneId

The ID of the Availability Zone, Local Zone, or Wavelength Zone.

Type: String

Required: No

zoneName

The name of the Availability Zone, Local Zone, or Wavelength Zone.

Type: String

Required: No

zoneState

The state of the Availability Zone, Local Zone, or Wavelength Zone. The possible values are available, unavailable, and constrained.

Type: String

Valid Values: available | information | impaired | unavailable | constrained

Required: No

zoneType

The type of zone.

Valid values: availability-zone | local-zone | wavelength-zone

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: