Use DescribePlacementGroups with a CLI - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Services or capabilities described in AWS documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region, see the AWS European Sovereign Cloud User Guide.

Use DescribePlacementGroups with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribePlacementGroups.

CLI
AWS CLI

To describe your placement groups

This example command describes all of your placement groups.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-placement-groups

Output:

{
    "PlacementGroups": [
        {
            "GroupName": "my-cluster",
            "State": "available",
            "Strategy": "cluster"
        },
        ...
    ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example describes the specified placement group.

Get-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group

Output:

GroupName             State        Strategy
---------             -----        --------
my-placement-group    available    cluster
Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example describes the specified placement group.

Get-EC2PlacementGroup -GroupName my-placement-group

Output:

GroupName             State        Strategy
---------             -----        --------
my-placement-group    available    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.