describe_account_attributes

EC2.Client.describe_account_attributes(**kwargs)

Describes attributes of your Amazon Web Services account. The following are the supported account attributes:

• supported-platforms : Indicates whether your account can launch instances into EC2-Classic and EC2-VPC, or only into EC2-VPC.
• default-vpc : The ID of the default VPC for your account, or none .
• max-instances : This attribute is no longer supported. The returned value does not reflect your actual vCPU limit for running On-Demand Instances. For more information, see On-Demand Instance Limits in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .
• vpc-max-security-groups-per-interface : The maximum number of security groups that you can assign to a network interface.
• max-elastic-ips : The maximum number of Elastic IP addresses that you can allocate for use with EC2-Classic.
• vpc-max-elastic-ips : The maximum number of Elastic IP addresses that you can allocate for use with EC2-VPC.

Note

We are retiring EC2-Classic on August 15, 2022. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC in the Amazon EC2 User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.describe_account_attributes(
    AttributeNames=[
        'supported-platforms'|'default-vpc',
    ],
    DryRun=True|False
)

Parameters

• AttributeNames (list) --

  The account attribute names.

  • (string) --
• DryRun (boolean) -- 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 DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

Return type

dict

Returns

Response Syntax

{
    'AccountAttributes': [
        {
            'AttributeName': 'string',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': 'string'
                },
            ]
        },
    ]
}

Response Structure

• (dict) --

  • AccountAttributes (list) --

    Information about the account attributes.

    • (dict) --

      Describes an account attribute.

      • AttributeName (string) --

        The name of the account attribute.

      • AttributeValues (list) --

        The values for the account attribute.

        • (dict) --

          Describes a value of an account attribute.

          • AttributeValue (string) --

            The value of the attribute.

Examples

This example describes the supported-platforms attribute for your AWS account.

response = client.describe_account_attributes(
    AttributeNames=[
        'supported-platforms',
    ],
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'AccountAttributes': [
        {
            'AttributeName': 'supported-platforms',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': 'EC2',
                },
                {
                    'AttributeValue': 'VPC',
                },
            ],
        },
    ],
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}

This example describes the attributes for your AWS account.

response = client.describe_account_attributes(
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'AccountAttributes': [
        {
            'AttributeName': 'supported-platforms',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': 'EC2',
                },
                {
                    'AttributeValue': 'VPC',
                },
            ],
        },
        {
            'AttributeName': 'vpc-max-security-groups-per-interface',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': '5',
                },
            ],
        },
        {
            'AttributeName': 'max-elastic-ips',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': '5',
                },
            ],
        },
        {
            'AttributeName': 'max-instances',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': '20',
                },
            ],
        },
        {
            'AttributeName': 'vpc-max-elastic-ips',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': '5',
                },
            ],
        },
        {
            'AttributeName': 'default-vpc',
            'AttributeValues': [
                {
                    'AttributeValue': 'none',
                },
            ],
        },
    ],
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}