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Create a group - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Create a group

You can create a group to organize your Capacity Reservations. After you create a group, you can add Capacity Reservations to the group.

Console
To create a group

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Capacity Reservations.

  3. Choose Capacity Reservation Resource Group.

  4. Choose Create Group.

  5. Enter a group name, and optionally add a description, Capacity Reservations, and tags.

  6. Choose Create.

AWS CLI
To create a group for Capacity Reservations

Use the create-group AWS CLI command with the following request parameters.

  • AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool – Ensures that the Capacity Reservation Resource Group can be targeted for instance launches.

  • AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic with allowed-resource-types set to AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation – Ensures that the Capacity Reservation Resource Group accepts Capacity Reservations only.

aws resource-groups create-group \
    --name MyCRGroup \
    --configuration \
        '{"Type": "AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool"}' \
        '{"Type": "AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic", "Parameters": [{"Name": "allowed-resource-types", "Values": ["AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation"]}]}'
PowerShell
To create a group for Capacity Reservations

Use the New-RGGroup cmdlet.

New-RGGroup `
    -Name MyCRGroup `
    -Configuration `
        @{"Type"="AWS::EC2::CapacityReservationPool"} `
        @{"Type"="AWS::ResourceGroups::Generic"; "Parameters"=@{"allowed-resource-types"=@{"Values"="AWS::EC2::CapacityReservation"}}}

To create a group that accepts only UltraServer Capacity Blocks of a specific instance type, see Create a Capacity Reservation Resource Group for UltraServer Capacity Blocks.