Amazon EC2 Ec2 Internet Gateway API

The Ec2 Internet Gateway API from Amazon EC2 — 5 operation(s) for ec2 internet gateway.

Business capability
IT Infrastructure Management BC-600.50

Operations 5

POST /?Action=AttachInternetGateway Attach Internet Gateway #
POST /?Action=CreateInternetGateway Create Internet Gateway #
POST /?Action=DeleteInternetGateway Delete Internet Gateway #
POST /?Action=DescribeInternetGateways Describe Internet Gateways #
POST /?Action=DetachInternetGateway Detach Internet Gateway #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-ec2-internet-gateway-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Internet Gateway API
  version: '2016-11-15'
  description: Generated from AWS's published Smithy model for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. 5 operation(s).
  contact:
    name: Amazon Web Services
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    identifier: Apache-2.0
    url: https://github.com/aws/api-models-aws/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com
  variables:
    region:
      default: us-east-1
security:
- sigv4: []
tags:
- name: Internet Gateway
paths:
  /?Action=AttachInternetGateway:
    post:
      operationId: AttachInternetGateway
      summary: Attach Internet Gateway
      description: Attaches an internet gateway or a virtual private gateway to a VPC, enabling connectivity between the internet and the VPC. For more information, see Internet gateways in the Amazon VPC User Guide.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: AttachInternetGateway
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2016-11-15'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/AttachInternetGatewayRequest'
            example:
              InternetGatewayId: igw-c0a643a9
              VpcId: vpc-a01106c2
      tags:
      - Internet Gateway
  /?Action=CreateInternetGateway:
    post:
      operationId: CreateInternetGateway
      summary: Create Internet Gateway
      description: Creates an internet gateway for use with a VPC. After creating the internet gateway, you attach it to a VPC using AttachInternetGateway. For more information, see Internet gateways in the Amazon VPC User Guide.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateInternetGatewayResult'
              example:
                InternetGateway:
                  Tags: []
                  InternetGatewayId: igw-c0a643a9
                  Attachments: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: CreateInternetGateway
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2016-11-15'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateInternetGatewayRequest'
      tags:
      - Internet Gateway
  /?Action=DeleteInternetGateway:
    post:
      operationId: DeleteInternetGateway
      summary: Delete Internet Gateway
      description: Deletes the specified internet gateway. You must detach the internet gateway from the VPC before you can delete it.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DeleteInternetGateway
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2016-11-15'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteInternetGatewayRequest'
            example:
              InternetGatewayId: igw-c0a643a9
      tags:
      - Internet Gateway
  /?Action=DescribeInternetGateways:
    post:
      operationId: DescribeInternetGateways
      summary: Describe Internet Gateways
      description: Describes your internet gateways. The default is to describe all your internet gateways. Alternatively, you can specify specific internet gateway IDs or filter the results to include only the internet gateways that match specific criteria.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeInternetGatewaysResult'
              example:
                InternetGateways:
                - Tags: []
                  InternetGatewayId: igw-c0a643a9
                  Attachments:
                  - State: attached
                    VpcId: vpc-a01106c2
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DescribeInternetGateways
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2016-11-15'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeInternetGatewaysRequest'
            example:
              Filters:
              - Name: attachment.vpc-id
                Values:
                - vpc-a01106c2
      tags:
      - Internet Gateway
  /?Action=DetachInternetGateway:
    post:
      operationId: DetachInternetGateway
      summary: Detach Internet Gateway
      description: Detaches an internet gateway from a VPC, disabling connectivity between the internet and the VPC. The VPC must not contain any running instances with Elastic IP addresses or public IPv4 addresses.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              allOf:
              - type: object
                required:
                - Action
                - Version
                properties:
                  Action:
                    type: string
                    const: DetachInternetGateway
                  Version:
                    type: string
                    const: '2016-11-15'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DetachInternetGatewayRequest'
            example:
              InternetGatewayId: igw-c0a643a9
              VpcId: vpc-a01106c2
      tags:
      - Internet Gateway
components:
  schemas:
    DeleteInternetGatewayRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        DryRun:
          type: boolean
          description: Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
        InternetGatewayId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the internet gateway.
      required:
      - InternetGatewayId
    DetachInternetGatewayRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        DryRun:
          type: boolean
          description: Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
        InternetGatewayId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the internet gateway.
        VpcId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the VPC.
      required:
      - InternetGatewayId
      - VpcId
    AttachInternetGatewayRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        DryRun:
          type: boolean
          description: Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
        InternetGatewayId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the internet gateway.
        VpcId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the VPC.
      required:
      - InternetGatewayId
      - VpcId
    DescribeInternetGatewaysResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        InternetGateways:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternetGateway'
          description: Information about the internet gateways.
        NextToken:
          type: string
          description: The token to include in another request to get the next page of items. This value is null when there are no more items to return.
    CreateInternetGatewayResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        InternetGateway:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternetGateway'
    Tag:
      type: object
      properties:
        Key:
          type: string
          description: 'The key of the tag. Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws:.'
        Value:
          type: string
          description: 'The value of the tag. Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.'
    CreateInternetGatewayRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        TagSpecifications:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TagSpecification'
          description: The tags to assign to the internet gateway.
        DryRun:
          type: boolean
          description: Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
    InternetGateway:
      type: object
      properties:
        Attachments:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternetGatewayAttachment'
          description: Any VPCs attached to the internet gateway.
        InternetGatewayId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the internet gateway.
        OwnerId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the Amazon Web Services account that owns the internet gateway.
        Tags:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
          description: Any tags assigned to the internet gateway.
    TagSpecification:
      type: object
      properties:
        ResourceType:
          type: string
          enum:
          - capacity-reservation
          - client-vpn-endpoint
          - customer-gateway
          - carrier-gateway
          - coip-pool
          - declarative-policies-report
          - dedicated-host
          - dhcp-options
          - egress-only-internet-gateway
          - elastic-ip
          - elastic-gpu
          - export-image-task
          - export-instance-task
          - fleet
          - fpga-image
          - host-reservation
          - image
          - image-usage-report
          - import-image-task
          - import-snapshot-task
          - instance
          - instance-event-window
          - internet-gateway
          - ipam
          - ipam-pool
          - ipam-scope
          - ipv4pool-ec2
          - ipv6pool-ec2
          - key-pair
          - launch-template
          - local-gateway
          - local-gateway-route-table
          - local-gateway-virtual-interface
          - local-gateway-virtual-interface-group
          - local-gateway-route-table-vpc-association
          - local-gateway-route-table-virtual-interface-group-association
          - natgateway
          - network-acl
          - network-interface
          - network-insights-analysis
          - network-insights-path
          - network-insights-access-scope
          - network-insights-access-scope-analysis
          - outpost-lag
          - placement-group
          - prefix-list
          - replace-root-volume-task
          - reserved-instances
          - route-table
          - security-group
          - security-group-rule
          - service-link-virtual-interface
          - snapshot
          - spot-fleet-request
          - spot-instances-request
          - subnet
          - subnet-cidr-reservation
          - traffic-mirror-filter
          - traffic-mirror-session
          - traffic-mirror-target
          - transit-gateway
          - transit-gateway-attachment
          - transit-gateway-connect-peer
          - transit-gateway-multicast-domain
          - transit-gateway-policy-table
          - transit-gateway-metering-policy
          - transit-gateway-route-table
          - transit-gateway-route-table-announcement
          - volume
          - vpc
          - vpc-endpoint
          - vpc-endpoint-connection
          - vpc-endpoint-service
          - vpc-endpoint-service-permission
          - vpc-peering-connection
          - vpn-connection
          - vpn-gateway
          - vpc-flow-log
          - capacity-reservation-fleet
          - traffic-mirror-filter-rule
          - vpc-endpoint-connection-device-type
          - verified-access-instance
          - verified-access-group
          - verified-access-endpoint
          - verified-access-policy
          - verified-access-trust-provider
          - vpn-connection-device-type
          - vpc-block-public-access-exclusion
          - vpc-encryption-control
          - route-server
          - route-server-endpoint
          - route-server-peer
          - ipam-resource-discovery
          - ipam-resource-discovery-association
          - instance-connect-endpoint
          - verified-access-endpoint-target
          - ipam-external-resource-verification-token
          - capacity-block
          - mac-modification-task
          - ipam-prefix-list-resolver
          - ipam-policy
          - ipam-prefix-list-resolver-target
          - ipam-internet-registry-association
          - secondary-interface
          - secondary-network
          - secondary-subnet
          - capacity-manager-data-export
          - vpn-concentrator
          - ipam-pool-allocation
          - capacity-reservation-cancellation-quote
          - application-status-check
          - capacity-reservation-modification-quote
          description: The type of resource to tag on creation.
        Tags:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
          description: The tags to apply to the resource.
    DescribeInternetGatewaysRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        NextToken:
          type: string
          description: The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.
        MaxResults:
          type: integer
          description: The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. For more information, see Pagination.
        DryRun:
          type: boolean
          description: Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
        InternetGatewayIds:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: 'The IDs of the internet gateways. Default: Describes all your internet gateways.'
        Filters:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Filter'
          description: The filters. attachment.state - The current state of the attachment between the gateway and the VPC (available). Present only if a VPC is attached. attachment.vpc-id - The ID of an attached VPC. internet-gateway-id - The ID of the Internet gateway. owner-id - The ID of the Amazon Web Services account that owns the internet gateway. tag - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter n
    Filter:
      type: object
      properties:
        Name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.
        Values:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR, and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.
    InternetGatewayAttachment:
      type: object
      properties:
        State:
          type: string
          enum:
          - attaching
          - attached
          - detaching
          - detached
          description: The current state of the attachment. For an internet gateway, the state is available when attached to a VPC; otherwise, this value is not returned.
        VpcId:
          type: string
          description: The ID of the VPC.
  securitySchemes:
    sigv4:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: AWS Signature Version 4. The Authorization header carries an AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 signature over the canonical request, with X-Amz-Date (and X-Amz-Security-Token for temporary credentials). Not a bearer token.
      x-aws-sigv4:
        signingName: ec2
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: Amazon Web Services
  source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/api-models-aws/582e55931c45b944739742a2c1620b6026dd2d13/models/ec2/service/2016-11-15/ec2-2016-11-15.json
  note: converted by smithy-to-openapi.py from AWS's Smithy model (roadmap#1001)