StartInstances - Elastic Compute Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Starts Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances that are in the Stopped state.

Operation description

This operation is an asynchronous operation. After you call this operation to start ECS instances, the operation sets the status of the ECS instances to Starting and begins the startup process. You can call the DescribeInstanceStatus operation to query the status of the instances. When the status of the ECS instances changes to Running, the instances are started.

Precautions

You cannot call this operation to start ECS instances that are locked for security reasons. For more information, see API behavior when an instance is locked for security reasons.
The ECS instances that you want to start must be in the Stopped (Stopped) state.
ECS instances stopped in economical mode may fail to be started due to insufficient resources.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ecs:StartInstances	update	*Instance `acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:instance/{#instanceId}`	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
DryRun	boolean	No	Specifies whether to perform a dry run. Valid values: true: performs only a dry run. The system checks the request for potential issues, including required parameters, request syntax, and instance status. If the request fails the dry run, an error message is returned. If the request passes the dry run, `DRYRUN.SUCCESS` is returned. Note If you set `BatchOptimization` to `SuccessFirst` and `DryRun` to true, only `DRYRUN.SUCCESS` is returned regardless of whether the request passes the dry run. false: performs a dry run and performs the actual request. If the request passes the dry run, the operation is performed. Default value: false.	false
RegionId	string	Yes	The region ID of the ECS instance. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.	cn-hangzhou
BatchOptimization	string	No	The batch operation mode. Valid values: AllTogether: starts all ECS instances at the same time. If all ECS instances are started, a success message is returned. If an ECS instance fails to be started, all the specified instances fail to be started and an error message is returned. SuccessFirst: separately starts each ECS instance. The response contains the operation results of each ECS instance. Default value: AllTogether.	AllTogether
InstanceId	array	Yes	The IDs of ECS instances. Valid values of N: 1 to 100.
	string	Yes	The ID of ECS instance N.	i-bp67acfmxazb4p****

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****
InstanceResponses	array<object>	The information about the ECS instance, such as the status of each instance before and after the operation is called and the operation results.
InstanceResponse	object
Code	string	The error code that is returned for the operation on the ECS instance. The value 200 indicates that the operation is successful. For more information, see the "Error codes" section in this topic.	200
Message	string	The error message that is returned for the operation on the ECS instance. The value success indicates that the operation is successful. For more information, see the "Error codes" section in this topic.	success
InstanceId	string	The ID of the ECS instance.	i-bp67acfmxazb4p****
CurrentStatus	string	The status of the ECS instance after the operation is called.	Starting
PreviousStatus	string	The status of the ECS instance before the operation is called.	Stopped

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****",
  "InstanceResponses": {
    "InstanceResponse": [
      {
        "Code": "200",
        "Message": "success",
        "InstanceId": "i-bp67acfmxazb4p****",
        "CurrentStatus": "Starting",
        "PreviousStatus": "Stopped"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	InvalidParameter.KMSKeyId.CMKNotEnabled	The CMK needs to be added ECS tag	-
400	InvalidParameter.KMSKeyId.CMKNotEnabled	The CMK needs to be enabled.	The customer master key (CMK) is not enabled when KMSKeyId is specified for an encrypted disk. You can call the DescribeKey operation of KMS to query information about the specified CMK.
400	InvalidParameter.KMSKeyId.KMSUnauthorized	ECS service account have no right to access your KMS.	-
400	DRYRUN.SUCCESS	This request is a dryrun request with successful result.	The request is checked and determined as valid.
400	Invalid.PrivatePoolOptions.NoStock	The PrivatePool has been used up.	-
403	InvalidInstanceId.NotFound	InstanceId should not be null.	-
403	InvalidParameter.TooManyInstanceIds	Instance ids cannot be more than 100.	-
403	Abs.InvalidInstanceIds.MalFormed	The specified instanceIds is not valid.	-
403	InstanceExpired	%s	-
403	InstanceLockedForSecurity	%s	-
403	InstanceExpiredOrInArrears	%s	-
403	IncorrectInstanceStatus	%s	The instance is in a state that does not support the current operation.
403	InvalidInstance.NotFoundSystemDisk	%s	-
403	OperationDenied.NoStock	The requested resource is sold out in the specified zone; try other types of resources or other regions and zones.	The requested resources are insufficient.
403	OperationDenied.SpotPriceLowerThanPublicPrice	The spot instance price is lower than public price.	Your user-defined maximum hourly price of a preemptible instance is lower than the current market price.
403	OperationDenied.SpotPriceLowerThanPublicPrice	%s	-
403	InsufficientBalance	Your account does not have enough balance.	Your account balance is insufficient. Add funds to your account and try again.
403	InstanceNotReady	The specified instance is not ready for use.	The resource is in a state that does not support the current operation. Try again later and check whether the instance state supports the operation.
403	OperationDenied.HostRepairing	%s	-
404	InvalidInstanceId.NotFound	%s	The specified instance does not exist. Check whether the InstanceId parameter is valid.
404	InvalidInstanceIds.NotFound	The specified InstanceIds does not exist.	The specified InstanceId parameter does not exist. You can call the DescribeInstances operation to query the state of the instance.
404	InvalidInstanceId.NotFound	The specified InstanceId does not exist.	The specified instance does not exist.
409	InvalidOperation.Conflict	Request was denied due to conflict with a previous request, please try again later.	-
500	InternalError	The request processing has failed due to some unknown error.	An internal error has occurred. Try again later.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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