1. API Description

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

This API is used to query availability zones.

A maximum of 20 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

Note: This API supports Finance regions. If the common parameter Region is a Finance region, a domain name with the Finance region needs to be specified, for example: cvm.ap-shanghai-fsi.tencentcloudapi.com

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 Querying the Chinese name of an availability zone

This example shows you how to query an availability zone in the Guangzhou region. To return its Chinese name of the availability zone, you need to pass the parameter Language=zh-CN.

Input Example

GET https://cvm.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DescribeZones
&Language=zh-CN
&<common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "TotalCount": 4,
    "ZoneSet": [
      {
        "ZoneState": "UNAVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100001",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-1",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 1"
      },
      {
        "ZoneState": "AVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100002",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-2",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 2"
      },
      {
        "ZoneState": "AVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100003",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-3",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 3"
      },
      {
        "ZoneState": "AVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100004",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-4",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 4"
      }
    ],
    "RequestId": "62DDFFC6-FDB5-44F7-20A6-59152E3D129A"
  }
}

Example2 Querying the English name of an availability zone

This example shows you how to query an availability zone in the Guangzhou region. Its English name will be returned by default if the parameter Language is not passed in.

Input Example

GET https://cvm.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=DescribeZones
&<common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "TotalCount": 4,
    "ZoneSet": [
      {
        "ZoneState": "UNAVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100001",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-1",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 1"
      },
      {
        "ZoneState": "AVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100002",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-2",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 2"
      },
      {
        "ZoneState": "AVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100003",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-3",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 3"
      },
      {
        "ZoneState": "AVAILABLE",
        "ZoneId": "100004",
        "Zone": "ap-guangzhou-4",
        "ZoneName": "Guangzhou Zone 4"
      }
    ],
    "RequestId": "62DDFFC6-FDB5-44F7-20A6-59152E3D129A"
  }
}

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Command Line Interface

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6. Error Code

There is no error code related to the API business logic. For other error codes, please see Common Error Codes.