---
name: "euca-modify-instance-type"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "euca2ools"
version: "3.3.1-2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/euca-modify-instance-type"
---

# euca-modify-instance-type(1)

\[Eucalyptus cloud admin only\] Modify an instance type

## NAME

euca-modify-instance-type - \[Eucalyptus cloud admin only\] Modify an instance type

## SYNOPSIS

euca-modify-instance-type \[-c COUNT\] \[-d GiB\] \[-m MiB\] \[--reset\]

- \[--show-empty-fields\] \[-U URL\]

  \[--region USER@REGION\] \[-I KEY\_ID\] \[-S KEY\] \[--security-token TOKEN\] \[--debug\] \[--debugger\] \[--version\] \[-h\] INSTANCETYPE

## DESCRIPTION

\[Eucalyptus cloud admin only\] Modify an instance type

### positional arguments:

- INSTANCETYPE

  name of the instance type to modify (required)

### optional arguments:

- **-c** COUNT, **--cpus** COUNT

  number of virtual CPUs to allocate to each instance

- **-d** GiB, **--disk** GiB

  amount of instance storage to allow each instance

- **-m** MiB, **--memory** MiB

  amount of RAM to allocate to each instance

- **--reset**

  reset the instance type to its default configuration

- **--show-empty-fields**

  show empty values as "(nil)"

- **-U** URL, **--url** URL

  compute service endpoint URL

- **--region** USER@REGION

  region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

**-I** KEY\_ID, **--access-key-id** KEY\_ID

**-S** KEY, **--secret-key** KEY

**--security-token** TOKEN

- **--debug**

  show debugging output

- **--debugger**

  launch interactive debugger on error

- **--version**

  show the program's version and exit

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit