GET

/#Action=DescribeRegions

http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=DescribeRegions

Describes the Regions that are enabled for your account, or all Regions. For a list of the Regions supported by Amazon EC2, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ec2-service.html"> Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud endpoints and quotas</a>. For information about enabling and disabling Regions for your account, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande-manage.html">Managing Amazon Web Services Regions</a> in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

Filterarray

The filters. <ul> <li> <code>endpoint</code> - The endpoint of the Region (for example, <code>ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com</code>). </li> <li> <code>opt-in-status</code> - The opt-in status of the Region (<code>opt-in-not-required</code> | <code>opted-in</code> | <code>not-opted-in</code>). </li> <li> <code>region-name</code> - The name of the Region (for example, <code>us-east-1</code>). </li> </ul>

RegionNamearray

The names of the Regions. You can specify any Regions, whether they are enabled and disabled for your account.

DryRunboolean

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

AllRegionsboolean

Indicates whether to display all Regions, including Regions that are disabled for your account.

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

Allowed:

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request GET \
2     --url 'http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=DescribeRegions' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}