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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Keypairs API
version: '2016-11-15'
description: Generated from AWS's published Smithy model for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. 4 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: Keypairs
paths:
/?Action=CreateKeyPair:
post:
operationId: CreateKeyPair
summary: Create Key Pair
description: Creates an ED25519 or 2048-bit RSA key pair with the specified name and in the specified format. Amazon EC2 stores the public key and displays the private key for you to save to a file. The private key is returned as an unencrypted PEM encoded PKCS#1 private key or an unencrypted PPK formatted private key for use with PuTTY. If a key with the specified name already exists, Amazon EC2 returns an error. The key pair returned to you is available only in the Amazon Web Services Region in which you create it. If you prefer, you can create your own key pair using a third-party tool and upload it to any Region using ImportKeyPair. You can have up to 5,000 key pairs per Amazon Web Services Region. For more information, see Amazon EC2 key pairs in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyPair'
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
schema:
allOf:
- type: object
required:
- Action
- Version
properties:
Action:
type: string
const: CreateKeyPair
Version:
type: string
const: '2016-11-15'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateKeyPairRequest'
example:
KeyName: my-key-pair
tags:
- Keypairs
get:
operationId: createKeyPair
summary: Amazon EC2 Create a Key Pair
description: Creates an ED25519 or 2048-bit RSA key pair with the specified name. Amazon EC2 stores the public key and displays the private key for you to save to a file.
tags:
- Keypairs
parameters:
- name: KeyName
in: query
required: true
description: A unique name for the key pair
schema:
type: string
example: example-resource-name
- name: KeyType
in: query
description: The type of key pair (rsa or ed25519)
schema:
type: string
enum:
- rsa
- ed25519
example: rsa
responses:
'200':
description: Successfully created key pair
'400':
description: Invalid request parameters
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
/?Action=DeleteKeyPair:
post:
operationId: DeleteKeyPair
summary: Delete Key Pair
description: Deletes the specified key pair, by removing the public key from Amazon EC2.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteKeyPairResult'
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
schema:
allOf:
- type: object
required:
- Action
- Version
properties:
Action:
type: string
const: DeleteKeyPair
Version:
type: string
const: '2016-11-15'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteKeyPairRequest'
example:
KeyName: my-key-pair
tags:
- Keypairs
get:
operationId: deleteKeyPair
summary: Amazon EC2 Delete a Key Pair
description: Deletes the specified key pair by removing the public key from Amazon EC2.
tags:
- Keypairs
parameters:
- name: KeyName
in: query
description: The name of the key pair to delete
schema:
type: string
example: example-resource-name
- name: KeyPairId
in: query
description: The ID of the key pair to delete
schema:
type: string
example: example-id-1234
responses:
'200':
description: Successfully deleted key pair
'400':
description: Invalid request parameters
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
/?Action=DescribeKeyPairs:
post:
operationId: DescribeKeyPairs
summary: Describe Key Pairs
description: Describes the specified key pairs or all of your key pairs. For more information about key pairs, see Amazon EC2 key pairs in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeKeyPairsResult'
example:
KeyPairs:
- KeyName: my-key-pair
KeyFingerprint: 1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
schema:
allOf:
- type: object
required:
- Action
- Version
properties:
Action:
type: string
const: DescribeKeyPairs
Version:
type: string
const: '2016-11-15'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeKeyPairsRequest'
example:
KeyNames:
- my-key-pair
tags:
- Keypairs
get:
operationId: describeKeyPairs
summary: Amazon EC2 Describe Key Pairs
description: Describes the specified key pairs or all of your key pairs.
tags:
- Keypairs
parameters:
- name: KeyName
in: query
description: The key pair names to describe
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
example:
- example-resource-name
- name: KeyPairId
in: query
description: The IDs of the key pairs
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
example:
- example-id-1234
responses:
'200':
description: Successfully described key pairs
'400':
description: Invalid request parameters
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
/?Action=ImportKeyPair:
post:
operationId: ImportKeyPair
summary: Import Key Pair
description: Imports the public key from an RSA or ED25519 key pair that you created using a third-party tool. You give Amazon Web Services only the public key. The private key is never transferred between you and Amazon Web Services. For more information about the requirements for importing a key pair, see Create a key pair and import the public key to Amazon EC2 in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
responses:
'200':
description: Success
content:
text/xml:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ImportKeyPairResult'
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
schema:
allOf:
- type: object
required:
- Action
- Version
properties:
Action:
type: string
const: ImportKeyPair
Version:
type: string
const: '2016-11-15'
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/ImportKeyPairRequest'
tags:
- Keypairs
components:
schemas:
DescribeKeyPairsRequest:
type: object
properties:
KeyNames:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: 'The key pair names. Default: Describes all of your key pairs.'
KeyPairIds:
type: array
items:
type: string
description: The IDs of the key pairs.
IncludePublicKey:
type: boolean
description: 'If true, the public key material is included in the response. Default: false'
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.
Filters:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Filter'
description: 'The filters. key-pair-id - The ID of the key pair. fingerprint - The fingerprint of the key pair. key-name - The name of the key pair. tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value. 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 name and TeamA for the filter value.'
ImportKeyPairResult:
type: object
properties:
KeyFingerprint:
type: string
description: For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the MD5 public key fingerprint as specified in section 4 of RFC 4716. For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8.
KeyName:
type: string
description: The key pair name that you provided.
KeyPairId:
type: string
description: The ID of the resulting key pair.
Tags:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
description: The tags applied to the imported key pair.
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.'
CreateKeyPairRequest:
type: object
properties:
KeyName:
type: string
description: 'A unique name for the key pair. Constraints: Up to 255 ASCII characters'
KeyType:
type: string
enum:
- rsa
- ed25519
description: 'The type of key pair. Note that ED25519 keys are not supported for Windows instances. Default: rsa'
TagSpecifications:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TagSpecification'
description: The tags to apply to the new key pair.
KeyFormat:
type: string
enum:
- pem
- ppk
description: 'The format of the key pair. Default: pem'
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.
required:
- KeyName
KeyPairInfo:
type: object
properties:
KeyPairId:
type: string
description: The ID of the key pair.
KeyType:
type: string
enum:
- rsa
- ed25519
description: The type of key pair.
Tags:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
description: Any tags applied to the key pair.
PublicKey:
type: string
description: The public key material.
CreateTime:
type: string
format: date-time
description: If you used Amazon EC2 to create the key pair, this is the date and time when the key was created, in ISO 8601 date-time format, in the UTC time zone. If you imported an existing key pair to Amazon EC2, this is the date and time the key was imported, in ISO 8601 date-time format, in the UTC time zone.
KeyName:
type: string
description: The name of the key pair.
KeyFingerprint:
type: string
description: 'If you used CreateKeyPair to create the key pair: For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key. For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8. If you used ImportKeyPair to provide Amazon Web Services the public key: For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the MD5 public key fingerprint as specified in section 4 of RFC4716. For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with Open'
DeleteKeyPairResult:
type: object
properties:
Return:
type: boolean
description: Is true if the request succeeds, and an error otherwise.
KeyPairId:
type: string
description: The ID of the key pair.
KeyPair:
type: object
properties:
KeyPairId:
type: string
description: The ID of the key pair.
Tags:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tag'
description: Any tags applied to the key pair.
KeyName:
type: string
description: The name of the key pair.
KeyFingerprint:
type: string
description: For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key. For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8.
KeyMaterial:
type: string
description: An unencrypted PEM encoded RSA or ED25519 private key.
DeleteKeyPairRequest:
type: object
properties:
KeyName:
type: string
description: The name of the key pair.
KeyPairId:
type: string
description: The ID of the key pair.
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.
DescribeKeyPairsResult:
type: object
properties:
KeyPairs:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyPairInfo'
description: Information about the key pairs.
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.
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.
ImportKeyPairRequest:
type: object
properties:
TagSpecifications:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/TagSpecification'
description: The tags to apply to the imported key pair.
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.
KeyName:
type: string
description: A unique name for the key pair.
PublicKeyMaterial:
type: string
format: byte
description: The public key.
required:
- KeyName
- PublicKeyMaterial
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
sigv4Auth:
type: apiKey
name: Authorization
in: header
description: AWS Signature Version 4 authentication
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)