Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
API Reference (API Version 2012-04-01)
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AttachInternetGateway

Description

Attaches an Internet gateway to a VPC, enabling connectivity between the Internet and the VPC. For more information about your VPC and Internet gateway, go to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.

Request Parameters

NameDescriptionRequired

InternetGatewayId

The ID of the Internet gateway to attach.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

VpcId

The ID of the VPC.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

The elements in the following table are wrapped in an AttachInternetGatewayResponse structure.

NameDescription

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

return

Returns true if the request succeeds. Otherwise, returns an error.

Type: xsd:boolean

Examples

Example Request

The example attaches the Internet gateway with ID igw-eaad4883 to the VPC with ID vpc-11ad4878.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AttachInternetGateway
&InternetGatewayId=igw-eaad4883
&VpcId=vpc-11ad4878
&AUTHPARAMS

Example Response

<AttachInternetGatewayResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-04-01/">
   <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
   <return>true</return>
</AttachInternetGatewayResponse>