Amazon Web Services Snapshots API

The Snapshots API from Amazon Web Services — 7 operation(s) for snapshots.

Operations 8

POST /snapshots/completion/{snapshotId} Amazon Web Services Completesnapshot #
PUT /snapshots/{snapshotId}/blocks/{blockIndex} Amazon Web Services Putsnapshotblock #
GET /snapshots/{secondSnapshotId}/changedblocks Amazon Web Services Listchangedblocks #
GET /snapshots/{snapshotId}/blocks Amazon Web Services Listsnapshotblocks #
POST /snapshots Amazon Web Services Startsnapshot #
GET /snapshots Amazon Web Services Listgraphsnapshots #
GET /snapshots/{snapshotIdentifier} Amazon Web Services Getgraphsnapshot #
POST /snapshots/{snapshotIdentifier}/restore Amazon Web Services Restoregraphfromsnapshot #

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OpenAPI Specification

amazon-web-services-snapshots-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Amazon Web Services Snapshots API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Snapshots across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: ebs-openapi-original.yml, neptune-graph-openapi-original.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
tags:
- name: Snapshots
paths:
  /snapshots/completion/{snapshotId}:
    POST:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Completesnapshot
      description: Seals and completes the snapshot after all of the required blocks of data have been written to it. Completing the snapshot changes the status to completed. You cannot write new blocks to a snapshot after it has been completed. You should always retry requests that receive server (5xx) error responses, and ThrottlingException and RequestThrottledException client error responses. For more information see Error retries in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesCompleteSnapshot
      tags:
      - Snapshots
  /snapshots/{snapshotId}/blocks/{blockIndex}:
    PUT:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Putsnapshotblock
      description: Writes a block of data to a snapshot. If the specified block contains data, the existing data is overwritten. The target snapshot must be in the pending state. Data written to a snapshot must be aligned with 512-KiB sectors. You should always retry requests that receive server (5xx) error responses, and ThrottlingException and RequestThrottledException client error responses. For more information see Error retries in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesPutSnapshotBlock
      tags:
      - Snapshots
  /snapshots/{secondSnapshotId}/changedblocks:
    GET:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Listchangedblocks
      description: Returns information about the blocks that are different between two Amazon Elastic Block Store snapshots of the same volume/snapshot lineage. You should always retry requests that receive server (5xx) error responses, and ThrottlingException and RequestThrottledException client error responses. For more information see Error retries in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesListChangedBlocks
      tags:
      - Snapshots
  /snapshots/{snapshotId}/blocks:
    GET:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Listsnapshotblocks
      description: Returns information about the blocks in an Amazon Elastic Block Store snapshot. You should always retry requests that receive server (5xx) error responses, and ThrottlingException and RequestThrottledException client error responses. For more information see Error retries in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesListSnapshotBlocks
      tags:
      - Snapshots
  /snapshots:
    POST:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Startsnapshot
      description: Creates a new Amazon EBS snapshot. The new snapshot enters the pending state after the request completes. After creating the snapshot, use PutSnapshotBlock to write blocks of data to the snapshot. You should always retry requests that receive server (5xx) error responses, and ThrottlingException and RequestThrottledException client error responses. For more information see Error retries in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesStartSnapshot
      tags:
      - Snapshots
    GET:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Listgraphsnapshots
      description: Lists available snapshots of a specified Neptune Analytics graph.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesListGraphSnapshots
      tags:
      - Snapshots
  /snapshots/{snapshotIdentifier}:
    GET:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Getgraphsnapshot
      description: Retrieves a specified graph snapshot.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesGetGraphSnapshot
      tags:
      - Snapshots
  /snapshots/{snapshotIdentifier}/restore:
    POST:
      summary: Amazon Web Services Restoregraphfromsnapshot
      description: Restores a graph from a snapshot.
      operationId: amazonWebServicesRestoreGraphFromSnapshot
      tags:
      - Snapshots
x-refined-from:
- ebs-openapi-original.yml
- neptune-graph-openapi-original.yml