Views the zones in a specified region.

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Request parameters

Name Type Required Example Description
RegionId String Yes cn-hangzhou

The region ID of the zone. You can call DescribeRegions to view the latest regions of Alibaba Cloud.

Action String No DescribeZones

The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to DescribeZones.

InstanceChargeType String No PostPaid

The billing method supported in the zone. For more information, see Pricing overview. Valid values:

  • PrePaid: Subscription.
  • PostPaid: Pay-As-You-Go. This is the default value.
SpotStrategy String No NoSpot

The bidding policy for the Pay-As-You-Go instance. Specify this parameter when the InstanceChargeType parameter is set to PostPaid. For more information, see Preemptible instances. Valid values:

  • NoSpot (Default): Pay-As-You-Go instance
  • SpotWithPriceLimit: preemptible instance with the maximum price
  • SpotAsPriceGo: price automatically provided by the system with the Pay-As-You-Go price as its maximum value
Verbose Boolean No false
Note This parameter will be removed in the future. We recommend that you use other parameters to ensure future compatibility.

Response parameters

Name Type Example Description
RequestId String 473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

The ID of the request.

Zones

An array that consists of ZoneType data.

 └AvailableDedicatedHostTypes Compute type

The types of supported dedicated hosts.

 └AvailableDiskCategories cloud

An array of supported disk categories.

 └AvailableInstanceTypes c5

The types of the instances that can be created.

 └AvailableResourceCreation DedicatedHost

An array of the types of resources that can be created.

 └AvailableResources

The resources that can be created. This parameter is an array of AvailableResourcesType data.

 └DataDiskCategories cloud_ssd

The category of the data disk. Valid values:

  • cloud: basic disk
  • cloud_efficiency: ultra disk
  • cloud_ssd: SSD
  • ephemeral_ssd: local SSD
 └InstanceGenerations I

The generation number of the instance type family.

 └InstanceTypeFamilies ["d1", "d1ne"]

A array that consists of InstanceTypeFamilyItemType data.

 └InstanceTypes ["ecs.g5.large"]

The type of the instance.

 └IoOptimized Boolean true

Indicates whether the instance is I/O optimized. Valid values:

  • none
  • optimized

When the InstanceType parameter is Phased-out instance type, the default value is null.

For instance types other than Generation I, the default value is optimized.

 └NetworkTypes VPC

The type of the network. Valid values:

  • VPC
  • Classic
 └SystemDiskCategories cloud_ssd

The category of the system disk. Valid values:

  • cloud: basic disk
  • cloud_efficiency: ultra disk
  • cloud_ssd: SSD
  • ephemeral_ssd: local SSD
 └AvailableVolumeCategories san_ssd

Available shared storage category.

 └DedicatedHostGenerations I

The generation number of dedicated hosts.

 └LocalName String Hangzhou Zone G

The name of the zone in local language.

 └ZoneId String cn-hangzhou-b

The ID of the zone.

Examples

Sample requests

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=DescribeZones
&RegionId=cn-hangzhou
&InstanceChargeType=PostPaid 
&SpotStrategy=NoSpot 
&<Common request parameters>

Successful response examples

XML format 

<DescribeZonesResponse>
  <Zones>
    <Zone>
      <AvailableResourceCreation> 
        <ResourceTypes>Instance</ResourceTypes>
        <ResourceTypes>Disk</ResourceTypes>
      </AvailableResourceCreation> 
      <LocalName/>
      <ZoneId>cn-hangzhou-d</ZoneId>
      <AvailableDiskCategories>
        <DiskCategories>cloud</DiskCategories>
      </AvailableDiskCategories>
    </Zone> 
    <Zone> 
      <AvailableResourceCreation>
        <ResourceTypes>Instance</ResourceTypes>
        <ResourceTypes>Disk</ResourceTypes>
      </AvailableResourceCreation>
      <LocalName/>
      <ZoneId>cn-hangzhou-b</ZoneId>
      <AvailableDiskCategories>
        <DiskCategories>cloud</DiskCategories>
      </AvailableDiskCategories>
    </Zone> 
  </Zones> 
  <RequestId>6DB97BCC-92BA-424D-A7C8-3F6486612BAE</RequestId>
</DescribeZonesResponse>

JSON format 

{
	"RequestId":"A347EF0E-BBCC-4EFA-BD79-27AA3ACFD1BF",
	"Zones":{
		"Zone":[
			{
				"AvailableResourceCreation":{
					"ResourceTypes":[
						"Instance",
						"Disk"
					]
				},
				"ZoneId":"cn-hangzhou-d",
				"LocalName":"",
				"AvailableDiskCategories":{
					"DiskCategories":[
						"cloud"
					]
				}
			},
			{
				"AvailableResourceCreation":{
					"ResourceTypes":[
						"Instance",
						"Disk"
					]
				},
				"ZoneId":"cn-hangzhou-b",
				"LocalName":"",
				"AvailableDiskCategories":{
					"DiskCategories":[
						"cloud"
					]
				}
			}
		]
	}
}

Error codes

HTTP status code Error code Error message Description
404 InvalidRegionId.NotFound The specified RegionId does not exist. The error message returned when the specified Region ID does not exist. Check whether the service is available in this region.
404 InvalidInstanceChargeType.NotFound The InstanceChargeType does not exist in our records The error message returned when the specified instance type does not exist.

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