Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 AMIs API

Operations for creating and managing Amazon Machine Images

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Business capability

IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 6

GET /?Action=CreateImage Amazon EC2 Create an AMI from an Instance #

POST /?Action=CreateImage Create Image #

GET /?Action=DescribeImages Amazon EC2 Describe AMIs #

POST /?Action=DescribeImages Describe Images #

GET /?Action=DeregisterImage Amazon EC2 Deregister an AMI #

POST /?Action=DeregisterImage Deregister Image #

Documentation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/getting-started/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Query-Requests.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-best-practices.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/

Specifications

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/openapi/amazon-ec2-amis-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/json-schema/amazon-ec2-instance-schema.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/json-structure/amazon-ec2-instance-structure.json

Other Resources

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/json-ld/amazon-ec2-context.jsonld

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

https://aws.amazon.com/tools/

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-security.html

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/examples/amazon-ec2-instance-example.json

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/apis.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-allocate-and-associate-eip-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-audit-security-group-usage-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-bind-eip-to-new-instance-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-clone-instance-via-image-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-deprovision-secured-instance-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-deregister-image-and-cleanup-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-harden-existing-security-group-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-launch-and-await-running-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-launch-secured-instance-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-paginate-instances-then-tag-image-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-place-instance-in-zone-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-prepare-key-and-launch-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-rebuild-image-from-launch-template-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-release-eip-on-terminate-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-request-spot-and-track-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-restart-and-verify-instance-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-rotate-key-pair-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-stop-and-create-image-workflow.yml

https://artifacts.apis.io/amazon-ec2/arazzo/amazon-ec2-stop-start-instance-cycle-workflow.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon Ec2 AMIs API
  version: '2016-11-15'
  contact:
    name: Amazon Web Services
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
  description: 'Operations tagged AMIs across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: amazon-ec2-openapi.yml, amazon-ec2-amis-api-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com
  description: Amazon EC2 Regional Endpoint
  variables:
    region:
      default: us-east-1
      description: AWS Region
tags:


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