Use CreatePlacementGroup with a CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Use CreatePlacementGroup with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use CreatePlacementGroup.

CLI
AWS CLI

Example 1: To create a placement group

The following create-placement-group example creates a placement group with the specified name.

aws ec2 create-placement-group \
    --group-name my-cluster \
    --strategy cluster

Output:

{
    "PlacementGroup": {
        "GroupName": "my-cluster",
        "State": "available",
        "Strategy": "cluster",
        "GroupId": "pg-0123456789example",
        "GroupArn": "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:123456789012:placement-group/my-cluster"
    }
}

For more information, see Placement groups for your Amazon EC2 instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Example 2: To create a partition placement group

The following create-placement-group example creates a partition placement group named HDFS-Group-A with five partitions.

aws ec2 create-placement-group \
    --group-name HDFS-Group-A \
    --strategy partition \
    --partition-count 5

Output:

{
    "PlacementGroup": {
        "GroupName": "HDFS-Group-A",
        "State": "available",
        "Strategy": "partition",
        "PartitionCount": 5,
        "GroupId": "pg-0abcdef1234example",
        "GroupArn": "arn:aws:ec2:us-west-2:123456789012:placement-group/HDFS-Group-A"
    }
}

For more information, see Placement strategies for your placement groups in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example creates a placement group with the specified name.

New-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group -Strategy cluster
Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example creates a placement group with the specified name.

New-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group -Strategy cluster

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.