NAME

       rds-purchase-reserved-db-instances-offering - Purchase a reserved database instance

SYNOPSIS

        rds-purchase-reserved-db-instances-offering
            ReservedDBInstancesOfferingId [--instance-count  value ]
           [--reserved-db-instance-id  value ]  [General Options]

DESCRIPTION

           Purchases a reserved database instance offering. For a one-time up-front
        fee, you receive guaranteed access to one or more database instances at a
        reduced hourly rate.

ARGUMENTS

        ReservedDBInstancesOfferingId
           The unique identifier of the offering to purchase. To see available
           offerings, use rds-describe-reserved-db-instances-offerings. You can also
           set this value using "--reserved-db-instances-offering-id". Required.

SPECIFIC OPTIONS

        -c, --instance-count VALUE
           Number of database instances to reserve. Defaults to 1.

        -i, --reserved-db-instance-id VALUE
           The unique identifier of the purchased reservation.

GENERAL OPTIONS

        --aws-credential-file VALUE
           Location of the file with your AWS credentials. Must not be specified in
           conjunction with --ec2-cert-file-path or --ec2-private-key-file-path.
           This value can be set by using the environment variable
           'AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE'.

        -C, --ec2-cert-file-path VALUE
           Path to AWS X.509 certificate file. Must be specified in conjunction with
           --ec2-private-key-file-path and must not be specified in conjunction with
           --aws-credential-file. This value can be set by using the environment
           variable 'EC2_CERT'.

        --connection-timeout VALUE
           Specify a connection timeout VALUE (in seconds) for API calls. The
           default value is '30'.

        --debug
           If an error occurs while --debug is used, it will display information
           useful for debugging the problem. The default value is 'false'.

        --delimiter VALUE
           What delimiter to use when displaying delimited (long) results.

        --headers
           If you are displaying tabular or delimited results, it includes the
           column headers. If you are showing xml results, it returns the HTTP
           headers from the service request, if applicable. This is off by default.

        -I, --access-key-id VALUE
           Specify the AWS Access ID to use.

        -K, --ec2-private-key-file-path VALUE
           Path to AWS X.509 private key file. Must be specified in conjunction with
           --ec2-cert-file-path and must not be specified in conjunction with
           --aws-credential-file. This value can be set by using the environment
           variable 'EC2_PRIVATE_KEY'.

        --region VALUE
           Specify region VALUE as the web service region to use. This value can be
           set by using the environment variable 'EC2_REGION'.

        -S, --secret-key VALUE
           Specify the AWS Secret Key to use.

        --service-sig-name VALUE
           Specify the service name to use when signing requests.  The default is
           "rds". This value can be set by using the environment variable
           'SERVICE_SIG_NAME'.

        --show-empty-fields
           Show empty fields and rows, using a "(nil)" value. The default is to not
           show empty fields or columns.

        --show-request
           Displays the URL used by the tools to call the AWS Service. The default
           value is 'false'.

        --show-table, --show-long, --show-xml, --quiet
           Specify how the results are displayed: tabular, delimited (long), xml, or
           no output (quiet). Tabular shows a subset of the data in fixed
           column-width form, while long shows all of the returned values delimited
           by a character. The xml is the raw return from the service, while quiet
           suppresses all standard output. The default is tabular, or 'show-table'.

        -U, --url VALUE
           This option will override the URL for the service call with VALUE. This
           value can be set by using the environment variable 'RDS_URL'.

INPUT EXAMPLES

        Reserves one database instance from offering o-12345678

       $PROMPT>rds-purchase-reserved-db-instances-offering o-12345678 -i reservationId

        Reserves five database instances from offering o-12345678

       $PROMPT>rds-purchase-reserved-db-instances-offering o-12345678 -i reservationId -c 5

OUTPUT

        This command returns a table that contains the following:
        * ReservationId - Unique identifier of the reservation.
        * OfferingId - Offering identifier for the reservation. This column appears
        only in the --show-long view.
        * Class - Class of database instances to which the reservation applies.
        * Multi-AZ - Indicates whether the reservation applies to Multi-AZ
        deployments.
        * Start Time - Time at which the reservation began.
        * Duration - Length of the reservation period in years.
        * Fixed Price - Fixed price charged for each database instance in this
        reservation.
        * Usage Price - Hourly price to run each reserved database instance.
        * Count - Number of database instances reserved.
        * State - Payment status.
        * Description - Indicates the database engine for the reservation.
        * Offering Type - Offering type for the reservation.
        * Amount - Recurring price charged to run this reserved database instance.
        * Currency - Currency of the amount.
        * Frequency - The frequency at which the amount is charged to run this
        reserved database instance.

OUTPUT EXAMPLES

        Output with column headers

SEE ALSO

         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonRDS/2012-09-17/CommandLineReference/
         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonRDS/latest/CommandLineReference

RDS API command line tools           1.10.003 api=2RDS-PURCHASE-RESERVED-DB-INSTANCES-OFFERING(1)