1. API Description

Domain name for API request: cvm.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to start instances.

• You can only perform this operation on instances whose status is STOPPED.
• The instance status will become STARTING when the API is called successfully and RUNNING when the instance is successfully started.
• Batch operations are supported. The maximum number of instances in each request is 100.

A maximum of 10 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

3. Output Parameters

4. Example

Example1 Starting up instances with the specified IDs

This example shows you how to start up two shutdown instances at once.

Input Example

GET https://cvm.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=StartInstances
&InstanceIds.0=ins-r8hr2upy
&InstanceIds.1=ins-5d8a23rs
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "d39d6c09-44e9-4e80-8661-77b5ff3cbc15"
  }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Python
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Java
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for PHP
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Go
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for NodeJS
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for .NET
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for C++

Command Line Interface

• Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.