Open documentation ↗Overview
<fullname>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud</fullname> <p>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides secure and resizable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services Cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates the need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to provision a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services Cloud where you can launch Amazon Web Services resources in a virtual network that you've defined. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance and used like a hard drive.</p> <p>To learn more, see the following resources:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Amazon EC2: <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2">Amazon EC2 product page</a>, <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/index.html">Amazon EC2 documentation</a> </p> </li> <li> <p>Amazon EBS: <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ebs">Amazon EBS product page</a>, <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/index.html">Amazon EBS documentation</a> </p> </li> <li> <p>Amazon VPC: <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/vpc">Amazon VPC product page</a>, <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/index.html">Amazon VPC documentation</a> </p> </li> <li> <p>VPN: <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/vpn">VPN product page</a>, <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpn/index.html">VPN documentation</a> </p> </li> </ul>
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a cloud platforms API from amazonaws.com. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 1182 endpoints.
At a glance
- Authentication
- API key
- HTTPS
- Yes
- CORS
- Unknown
- Category
- Cloud Platforms
- Base URL
http://ec2.amazonaws.com- Version
- 2016-11-15
- Endpoints
- 1182
- OpenAPI
- Specification ↗
- Spec updated
- 2020-05-11
Make a first request
Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.
curl -X GET "http://ec2.amazonaws.com/#Action=AcceptAddressTransfer" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"const response = await fetch("http://ec2.amazonaws.com/#Action=AcceptAddressTransfer", {
method: "GET",
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json",
"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
},
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);import requests
response = requests.request(
"GET",
"http://ec2.amazonaws.com/#Action=AcceptAddressTransfer",
headers={
"Accept": "application/json",
"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
},
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())Endpoints
| Method | Path | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /#Action=AcceptAddressTransfer | Accepts an Elastic IP address transfer. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-eips.html#using-instance-address |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptAddressTransfer | Accepts an Elastic IP address transfer. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-eips.html#using-instance-address |
| GET | /#Action=AcceptReservedInstancesExchangeQuote | Accepts the Convertible Reserved Instance exchange quote described in the <a>GetReservedInstancesExchangeQuote</a> call. |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptReservedInstancesExchangeQuote | Accepts the Convertible Reserved Instance exchange quote described in the <a>GetReservedInstancesExchangeQuote</a> call. |
| GET | /#Action=AcceptTransitGatewayMulticastDomainAssociations | Accepts a request to associate subnets with a transit gateway multicast domain. |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptTransitGatewayMulticastDomainAssociations | Accepts a request to associate subnets with a transit gateway multicast domain. |
| GET | /#Action=AcceptTransitGatewayPeeringAttachment | Accepts a transit gateway peering attachment request. The peering attachment must be in the <code>pendingAcceptance</code> state. |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptTransitGatewayPeeringAttachment | Accepts a transit gateway peering attachment request. The peering attachment must be in the <code>pendingAcceptance</code> state. |
| GET | /#Action=AcceptTransitGatewayVpcAttachment | <p>Accepts a request to attach a VPC to a transit gateway.</p> <p>The VPC attachment must be in the <code>pendingAcceptance</code> state. Use <a>DescribeTransit |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptTransitGatewayVpcAttachment | <p>Accepts a request to attach a VPC to a transit gateway.</p> <p>The VPC attachment must be in the <code>pendingAcceptance</code> state. Use <a>DescribeTransit |
| GET | /#Action=AcceptVpcEndpointConnections | Accepts connection requests to your VPC endpoint service. |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptVpcEndpointConnections | Accepts connection requests to your VPC endpoint service. |
| GET | /#Action=AcceptVpcPeeringConnection | <p>Accept a VPC peering connection request. To accept a request, the VPC peering connection must be in the <code>pending-acceptance</code> state, and you must b |
| POST | /#Action=AcceptVpcPeeringConnection | <p>Accept a VPC peering connection request. To accept a request, the VPC peering connection must be in the <code>pending-acceptance</code> state, and you must b |
| GET | /#Action=AdvertiseByoipCidr | <p>Advertises an IPv4 or IPv6 address range that is provisioned for use with your Amazon Web Services resources through bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP).</p> |
| POST | /#Action=AdvertiseByoipCidr | <p>Advertises an IPv4 or IPv6 address range that is provisioned for use with your Amazon Web Services resources through bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP).</p> |
| GET | /#Action=AllocateAddress | <p>Allocates an Elastic IP address to your Amazon Web Services account. After you allocate the Elastic IP address you can associate it with an instance or netwo |
| POST | /#Action=AllocateAddress | <p>Allocates an Elastic IP address to your Amazon Web Services account. After you allocate the Elastic IP address you can associate it with an instance or netwo |
| GET | /#Action=AllocateHosts | Allocates a Dedicated Host to your account. At a minimum, specify the supported instance type or instance family, the Availability Zone in which to allocate the |
| POST | /#Action=AllocateHosts | Allocates a Dedicated Host to your account. At a minimum, specify the supported instance type or instance family, the Availability Zone in which to allocate the |
| GET | /#Action=AllocateIpamPoolCidr | <p>Allocate a CIDR from an IPAM pool. In IPAM, an allocation is a CIDR assignment from an IPAM pool to another IPAM pool or to a resource. For more information, |
| POST | /#Action=AllocateIpamPoolCidr | <p>Allocate a CIDR from an IPAM pool. In IPAM, an allocation is a CIDR assignment from an IPAM pool to another IPAM pool or to a resource. For more information, |
| GET | /#Action=ApplySecurityGroupsToClientVpnTargetNetwork | Applies a security group to the association between the target network and the Client VPN endpoint. This action replaces the existing security groups with the s |
| POST | /#Action=ApplySecurityGroupsToClientVpnTargetNetwork | Applies a security group to the association between the target network and the Client VPN endpoint. This action replaces the existing security groups with the s |
| GET | /#Action=AssignIpv6Addresses | <p>Assigns one or more IPv6 addresses to the specified network interface. You can specify one or more specific IPv6 addresses, or you can specify the number of |
| POST | /#Action=AssignIpv6Addresses | <p>Assigns one or more IPv6 addresses to the specified network interface. You can specify one or more specific IPv6 addresses, or you can specify the number of |
| GET | /#Action=AssignPrivateIpAddresses | <p>Assigns one or more secondary private IP addresses to the specified network interface.</p> <p>You can specify one or more specific secondary IP addresses, or |
| POST | /#Action=AssignPrivateIpAddresses | <p>Assigns one or more secondary private IP addresses to the specified network interface.</p> <p>You can specify one or more specific secondary IP addresses, or |
| GET | /#Action=AssignPrivateNatGatewayAddress | Assigns one or more private IPv4 addresses to a private NAT gateway. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat |
| POST | /#Action=AssignPrivateNatGatewayAddress | Assigns one or more private IPv4 addresses to a private NAT gateway. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateAddress | <p>Associates an Elastic IP address, or carrier IP address (for instances that are in subnets in Wavelength Zones) with an instance or a network interface. Befo |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateAddress | <p>Associates an Elastic IP address, or carrier IP address (for instances that are in subnets in Wavelength Zones) with an instance or a network interface. Befo |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateClientVpnTargetNetwork | <p>Associates a target network with a Client VPN endpoint. A target network is a subnet in a VPC. You can associate multiple subnets from the same VPC with a Cl |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateClientVpnTargetNetwork | <p>Associates a target network with a Client VPN endpoint. A target network is a subnet in a VPC. You can associate multiple subnets from the same VPC with a Cl |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateDhcpOptions | <p>Associates a set of DHCP options (that you've previously created) with the specified VPC, or associates no DHCP options with the VPC.</p> <p>After you associ |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateDhcpOptions | <p>Associates a set of DHCP options (that you've previously created) with the specified VPC, or associates no DHCP options with the VPC.</p> <p>After you associ |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateEnclaveCertificateIamRole | <p>Associates an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role with an Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate. This enables the certificate to be used by the ACM for |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateEnclaveCertificateIamRole | <p>Associates an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role with an Certificate Manager (ACM) certificate. This enables the certificate to be used by the ACM for |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateIamInstanceProfile | Associates an IAM instance profile with a running or stopped instance. You cannot associate more than one IAM instance profile with an instance. |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateIamInstanceProfile | Associates an IAM instance profile with a running or stopped instance. You cannot associate more than one IAM instance profile with an instance. |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateInstanceEventWindow | <p>Associates one or more targets with an event window. Only one type of target (instance IDs, Dedicated Host IDs, or tags) can be specified with an event windo |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateInstanceEventWindow | <p>Associates one or more targets with an event window. Only one type of target (instance IDs, Dedicated Host IDs, or tags) can be specified with an event windo |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateIpamResourceDiscovery | Associates an IPAM resource discovery with an Amazon VPC IPAM. A resource discovery is an IPAM component that enables IPAM to manage and monitor resources that |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateIpamResourceDiscovery | Associates an IPAM resource discovery with an Amazon VPC IPAM. A resource discovery is an IPAM component that enables IPAM to manage and monitor resources that |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateNatGatewayAddress | <p>Associates Elastic IP addresses (EIPs) and private IPv4 addresses with a public NAT gateway. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/v |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateNatGatewayAddress | <p>Associates Elastic IP addresses (EIPs) and private IPv4 addresses with a public NAT gateway. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/v |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateRouteTable | <p>Associates a subnet in your VPC or an internet gateway or virtual private gateway attached to your VPC with a route table in your VPC. This association cause |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateRouteTable | <p>Associates a subnet in your VPC or an internet gateway or virtual private gateway attached to your VPC with a route table in your VPC. This association cause |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateSubnetCidrBlock | Associates a CIDR block with your subnet. You can only associate a single IPv6 CIDR block with your subnet. An IPv6 CIDR block must have a prefix length of /64. |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateSubnetCidrBlock | Associates a CIDR block with your subnet. You can only associate a single IPv6 CIDR block with your subnet. An IPv6 CIDR block must have a prefix length of /64. |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateTransitGatewayMulticastDomain | <p>Associates the specified subnets and transit gateway attachments with the specified transit gateway multicast domain.</p> <p>The transit gateway attachment m |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateTransitGatewayMulticastDomain | <p>Associates the specified subnets and transit gateway attachments with the specified transit gateway multicast domain.</p> <p>The transit gateway attachment m |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateTransitGatewayPolicyTable | Associates the specified transit gateway attachment with a transit gateway policy table. |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateTransitGatewayPolicyTable | Associates the specified transit gateway attachment with a transit gateway policy table. |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateTransitGatewayRouteTable | Associates the specified attachment with the specified transit gateway route table. You can associate only one route table with an attachment. |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateTransitGatewayRouteTable | Associates the specified attachment with the specified transit gateway route table. You can associate only one route table with an attachment. |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateTrunkInterface | <note> <p>This API action is currently in <b>limited preview only</b>. If you are interested in using this feature, contact your account manager.</p> </note> <p |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateTrunkInterface | <note> <p>This API action is currently in <b>limited preview only</b>. If you are interested in using this feature, contact your account manager.</p> </note> <p |
| GET | /#Action=AssociateVpcCidrBlock | <p>Associates a CIDR block with your VPC. You can associate a secondary IPv4 CIDR block, an Amazon-provided IPv6 CIDR block, or an IPv6 CIDR block from an IPv6 |
| POST | /#Action=AssociateVpcCidrBlock | <p>Associates a CIDR block with your VPC. You can associate a secondary IPv4 CIDR block, an Amazon-provided IPv6 CIDR block, or an IPv6 CIDR block from an IPv6 |
| GET | /#Action=AttachClassicLinkVpc | <note> <p>We are retiring EC2-Classic. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/A |
| POST | /#Action=AttachClassicLinkVpc | <note> <p>We are retiring EC2-Classic. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/A |
| GET | /#Action=AttachInternetGateway | Attaches an internet gateway or a virtual private gateway to a VPC, enabling connectivity between the internet and the VPC. For more information about your VPC |
| POST | /#Action=AttachInternetGateway | Attaches an internet gateway or a virtual private gateway to a VPC, enabling connectivity between the internet and the VPC. For more information about your VPC |
| GET | /#Action=AttachNetworkInterface | Attaches a network interface to an instance. |
| POST | /#Action=AttachNetworkInterface | Attaches a network interface to an instance. |
| GET | /#Action=AttachVerifiedAccessTrustProvider | A trust provider is a third-party entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for users and devices. One or more trust providers can be att |
| POST | /#Action=AttachVerifiedAccessTrustProvider | A trust provider is a third-party entity that creates, maintains, and manages identity information for users and devices. One or more trust providers can be att |
| GET | /#Action=AttachVolume | <p>Attaches an EBS volume to a running or stopped instance and exposes it to the instance with the specified device name.</p> <p>Encrypted EBS volumes must be a |
| POST | /#Action=AttachVolume | <p>Attaches an EBS volume to a running or stopped instance and exposes it to the instance with the specified device name.</p> <p>Encrypted EBS volumes must be a |
| GET | /#Action=AttachVpnGateway | <p>Attaches a virtual private gateway to a VPC. You can attach one virtual private gateway to one VPC at a time.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https |
| POST | /#Action=AttachVpnGateway | <p>Attaches a virtual private gateway to a VPC. You can attach one virtual private gateway to one VPC at a time.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https |
| GET | /#Action=AuthorizeClientVpnIngress | Adds an ingress authorization rule to a Client VPN endpoint. Ingress authorization rules act as firewall rules that grant access to networks. You must configure |
| POST | /#Action=AuthorizeClientVpnIngress | Adds an ingress authorization rule to a Client VPN endpoint. Ingress authorization rules act as firewall rules that grant access to networks. You must configure |
| GET | /#Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress | <p>[VPC only] Adds the specified outbound (egress) rules to a security group for use with a VPC.</p> <p>An outbound rule permits instances to send traffic to th |
| POST | /#Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress | <p>[VPC only] Adds the specified outbound (egress) rules to a security group for use with a VPC.</p> <p>An outbound rule permits instances to send traffic to th |
| GET | /#Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress | <p>Adds the specified inbound (ingress) rules to a security group.</p> <p>An inbound rule permits instances to receive traffic from the specified IPv4 or IPv6 C |
| POST | /#Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress | <p>Adds the specified inbound (ingress) rules to a security group.</p> <p>An inbound rule permits instances to receive traffic from the specified IPv4 or IPv6 C |
| GET | /#Action=BundleInstance | <p>Bundles an Amazon instance store-backed Windows instance.</p> <p>During bundling, only the root device volume (C:\) is bundled. Data on other instance store |
| POST | /#Action=BundleInstance | <p>Bundles an Amazon instance store-backed Windows instance.</p> <p>During bundling, only the root device volume (C:\) is bundled. Data on other instance store |
| GET | /#Action=CancelBundleTask | Cancels a bundling operation for an instance store-backed Windows instance. |
| POST | /#Action=CancelBundleTask | Cancels a bundling operation for an instance store-backed Windows instance. |
| GET | /#Action=CancelCapacityReservation | <p>Cancels the specified Capacity Reservation, releases the reserved capacity, and changes the Capacity Reservation's state to <code>cancelled</code>.</p> <p>In |
| POST | /#Action=CancelCapacityReservation | <p>Cancels the specified Capacity Reservation, releases the reserved capacity, and changes the Capacity Reservation's state to <code>cancelled</code>.</p> <p>In |
| GET | /#Action=CancelCapacityReservationFleets | <p>Cancels one or more Capacity Reservation Fleets. When you cancel a Capacity Reservation Fleet, the following happens:</p> <ul> <li> <p>The Capacity Reservati |
| POST | /#Action=CancelCapacityReservationFleets | <p>Cancels one or more Capacity Reservation Fleets. When you cancel a Capacity Reservation Fleet, the following happens:</p> <ul> <li> <p>The Capacity Reservati |
| GET | /#Action=CancelConversionTask | <p>Cancels an active conversion task. The task can be the import of an instance or volume. The action removes all artifacts of the conversion, including a parti |
| POST | /#Action=CancelConversionTask | <p>Cancels an active conversion task. The task can be the import of an instance or volume. The action removes all artifacts of the conversion, including a parti |
| GET | /#Action=CancelExportTask | Cancels an active export task. The request removes all artifacts of the export, including any partially-created Amazon S3 objects. If the export task is complet |
| POST | /#Action=CancelExportTask | Cancels an active export task. The request removes all artifacts of the export, including any partially-created Amazon S3 objects. If the export task is complet |
| GET | /#Action=CancelImageLaunchPermission | Removes your Amazon Web Services account from the launch permissions for the specified AMI. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC |
| POST | /#Action=CancelImageLaunchPermission | Removes your Amazon Web Services account from the launch permissions for the specified AMI. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC |
| GET | /#Action=CancelImportTask | Cancels an in-process import virtual machine or import snapshot task. |
| POST | /#Action=CancelImportTask | Cancels an in-process import virtual machine or import snapshot task. |
| GET | /#Action=CancelReservedInstancesListing | <p>Cancels the specified Reserved Instance listing in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/A |
| POST | /#Action=CancelReservedInstancesListing | <p>Cancels the specified Reserved Instance listing in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/A |
| GET | /#Action=CancelSpotFleetRequests | <p>Cancels the specified Spot Fleet requests.</p> <p>After you cancel a Spot Fleet request, the Spot Fleet launches no new instances.</p> <p>You must also speci |
| POST | /#Action=CancelSpotFleetRequests | <p>Cancels the specified Spot Fleet requests.</p> <p>After you cancel a Spot Fleet request, the Spot Fleet launches no new instances.</p> <p>You must also speci |
| GET | /#Action=CancelSpotInstanceRequests | <p>Cancels one or more Spot Instance requests.</p> <important> <p>Canceling a Spot Instance request does not terminate running Spot Instances associated with th |
| POST | /#Action=CancelSpotInstanceRequests | <p>Cancels one or more Spot Instance requests.</p> <important> <p>Canceling a Spot Instance request does not terminate running Spot Instances associated with th |
Showing the first 100 of 1182 endpoints; the full list is in the documentation.
Questions
Does the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API need an API key?
Yes. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API uses API key authentication; the documentation explains how to get credentials.
Does the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API support HTTPS?
Yes, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API is served over HTTPS.
How many endpoints does the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API have?
Its OpenAPI description lists 1182 endpoints in version 2016-11-15. The first 100 are shown on this page.
What are alternatives to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API?
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Azure Data Lake Storage
Cloud PlatformsAzure Data Lake Storage provides storage for Hadoop and other big data workloads.
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