After you purchase Pay-As-You-Go instances, you can use PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering to purchase Reserved Instances (RIs) so that you can benefit from billing discounts.

Description

Before you purchase RIs, you can call DescribeAvailableResource to query available instance resources.

We recommend that you read Reserved Instance billing methods before you purchase RIs to learn more about the billing methods applied.

Request parameters

Name Type Required Description
Action String Yes A parameter required by the system. Value: PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering.
RegionId String Yes ID of the region to which the RI belongs. You can call DescribeRegions to view the latest region list.
Scope String Yes Scope of the RI. Optional values:
  • Region: region-level
  • Zone: zone-level

Default value: Region.

ZoneId String No ID of the zone to which the RI belongs. When Scope is set to Zone, this parameter is required. For information about the zone list, see DescribeZones.
ReservedInstanceName String No Name of the RI. The name must be a string of 2 to 128 characters in length and can contain letters, numbers, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens. It must start with a letter. It cannot start with http:// or https://.
InstanceType String Yes Instance type of the RI. For more information, see Instance type families.
InstanceAmount Integer Yes Number of instances allocated to an RI (An RI is a coupon that includes one or more allocated instances.)
OfferingType String Yes Payment type of the RI. Optional values:
  • No Upfront: No upfront payment is required.
  • Partial Upfront: A portion of upfront payment is required.
  • All Upfront: Full upfront payment is required.
Period Integer Yes Term of the RI. Unit: years. Optional values: 1 and 3.
PeriodUnit String Yes Term unit. Optional value: Year.

Response parameters

Name Type Description
ReservedInstanceId String ID of the RI. The ID is the unique identity to access the RI.

Examples

Request example

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering
&RegionId=cn-hangzhou
&Scope=Zone
&ZoneId=cn-hangzhou-a
&ReservedInstanceName=test
&InstanceType=ecs.g5.2xlarge
&InstanceAmount=1
&OfferingType=All Upfront
&Period=1
&PeriodUnit=Year
&<Common request parameters>

Response example

XML format 

<PurchaseReservedInstancesOfferingResponse>
    <RequestId>51AB7717-6E1A-4D1D-A44D-54CBxxxxxxxx</RequestId>
    <ReservedInstanceId>ri-instance</InstanceId>
</PurchaseReservedInstancesOfferingResponse>

JSON format 

{
    "RequestId": "51AB7717-6E1A-4D1D-A44D-54CBxxxxxxxx",
    "ReservedInstanceId":"ri-instance"
}