**To purchase a Scheduled Instance**

This example purchases a Scheduled Instance.

Command::

  aws ec2 purchase-scheduled-instances --purchase-requests file://purchase-request.json

Purchase-request.json::

  [
      {
          "PurchaseToken": "eyJ2IjoiMSIsInMiOjEsImMiOi...",
          "InstanceCount": 1
      }
  ]

Output::

  {
    "ScheduledInstanceSet": [
        {
            "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-2b",
            "ScheduledInstanceId": "sci-1234-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
            "HourlyPrice": "0.095",
            "CreateDate": "2016-01-25T21:43:38.612Z",
            "Recurrence": {
                "OccurrenceDaySet": [
                    1
                ],
                "Interval": 1,
                "Frequency": "Weekly",
                "OccurrenceRelativeToEnd": false,
                "OccurrenceUnit": ""
            },
            "Platform": "Linux/UNIX",
            "TermEndDate": "2017-01-31T09:00:00Z",
            "InstanceCount": 1,
            "SlotDurationInHours": 32,
            "TermStartDate": "2016-01-31T09:00:00Z",
            "NetworkPlatform": "EC2-VPC",
            "TotalScheduledInstanceHours": 1696,
            "NextSlotStartTime": "2016-01-31T09:00:00Z",
            "InstanceType": "c4.large"
        }
    ]  
  }