# View the state of a Capacity Reservation


Amazon EC2 constantly monitors the state of your Capacity Reservations.

Due to the [eventual consistency](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/latest/devguide/eventual-consistency.html) model followed by the Amazon EC2 API, after you create a Capacity Reservation, it can take up to 5 minutes for the state of the Capacity Reservation to reflect that it is `active`. During this time, the Capacity Reservation might remain in the `pending` state. However, it might already be available for use, in which case attempts to launch instances into the Capacity Reservation would succeed.

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#### [ Console ]

**To view your Capacity Reservations**

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Capacity Reservations**.

1. Select the Capacity Reservation.

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#### [ AWS CLI ]

**To describe your Capacity Reservations**  
Use the [describe-capacity-reservations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-capacity-reservations.html) command.

For example, the following command describes all Capacity Reservations.

```
aws ec2 describe-capacity-reservations
```

The following is example output.

```
{
    "CapacityReservations": [
        {
            "CapacityReservationId": "cr-1234abcd56EXAMPLE",
            "EndDateType": "unlimited",
            "AvailabilityZone": "eu-west-1a",
            "InstanceMatchCriteria": "open",
            "Tags": [],
            "EphemeralStorage": false,
            "CreateDate": "2019-08-16T09:03:18.000Z",
            "AvailableInstanceCount": 1,
            "InstancePlatform": "Linux/UNIX",
            "TotalInstanceCount": 1,
            "State": "active",
            "Tenancy": "default",
            "EbsOptimized": true,
            "InstanceType": "a1.medium",
            "PlacementGroupArn": "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:placement-group/MyPG"
        },
        {
            "CapacityReservationId": "cr-abcdEXAMPLE9876ef",
            "EndDateType": "unlimited",
            "AvailabilityZone": "eu-west-1a",
            "InstanceMatchCriteria": "open",
            "Tags": [],
            "EphemeralStorage": false,
            "CreateDate": "2019-08-07T11:34:19.000Z",
            "AvailableInstanceCount": 3,
            "InstancePlatform": "Linux/UNIX",
            "TotalInstanceCount": 3,
            "State": "cancelled",
            "Tenancy": "default",
            "EbsOptimized": true,
            "InstanceType": "m5.large"
        }
    ]
}
```

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#### [ PowerShell ]

**To describe a Capacity Reservation**  
Use the [Get-EC2CapacityReservation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Get-EC2CapacityReservation.html) cmdlet.

```
Get-EC2CapacityReservation `
    -CapacityReservationId cr-1234abcd56EXAMPLE
```

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## Capacity Reservation states


Capacity Reservations have the following possible states.


| State | Description | 
| --- | --- | 
| active | The capacity is available for use. | 
| expired | The Capacity Reservation expired automatically at the date and time specified in your reservation request. The reserved capacity is no longer available for your use. | 
| cancelled | The Capacity Reservation was canceled. The reserved capacity is no longer available for your use. | 
| pending | The Capacity Reservation request was successful but the capacity provisioning is still pending. | 
| failed | The Capacity Reservation request has failed. A request can fail due to request parameters that are not valid, capacity constraints, or instance limit constraints. You can view a failed request for 60 minutes. | 
| scheduled | (Future-dated Capacity Reservations only) The future-dated Capacity Reservation request was approved and the Capacity Reservation is scheduled for delivery on the requested start date. | 
| assessing | (Future-dated Capacity Reservations only) Amazon EC2 is assessing your request for a future-dated Capacity Reservation. For more information, see [Future-dated Capacity Reservation assessment](cr-concepts.md#cr-future-dated-assessment). | 
| delayed | (Future-dated Capacity Reservations only) Amazon EC2 encountered a delay in provisioning the requested future-dated Capacity Reservation. Amazon EC2 is unable to deliver the requested capacity by the requested start date and time. | 
| unsupported | (Future-dated Capacity Reservations only) Amazon EC2 can't support the future-dated Capacity Reservation request due to capacity constraints. You can view unsupported requests for 30 days. The Capacity Reservation will not be delivered. |