API Reference

Amazon EC2 provides two APIs, SOAP and Query. These APIs allow developers to launch and control instances from their own applications.

This section discusses the operations available in the Amazon EC2 APIs, the semantics of those calls and the parameters that must be supplied. Examples of requests and responses are also provided.

	Note
	The same XML body is returned in both the Query API and SOAP API.

We recommend you familiarize yourself with the conventions we've used in describing the API.