tencent cloud

1. API Description

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

This API is used to start one or more 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 will become RUNNING when the instance is successfully started.
• Batch operations are supported. The maximum number of instances in each request is 100.
• This API is async. After the request is sent successfully, a RequestId will be returned. At this time, the operation is not completed immediately. The result of the instance operation can be queried by calling the DescribeInstances API. If the latest operation status (LatestOperationState) of the instance is SUCCESS, the operation is successful.

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 instances with specified IDs

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

Input Example

https://lighthouse.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=StartInstances
&InstanceIds.0=lhins-ruy9d2tw
&InstanceIds.1=lhins-rusdke45
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "0e9982ad-ec0b-44f4-b010-40ba25c8b7b7"
    }
}

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 Node.js
• 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.