Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
CLI Reference (API Version 2011-12-15)
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ec2-modify-snapshot-attribute

Description

Adds or remove permission settings for the specified snapshot.

The short version of this command is ec2msnapatt.

Syntax

ec2-modify-snapshot-attribute snapshot_id -c [--add entity | --remove entity]

Options

NameDescriptionRequired

snapshot_id

The ID of the snapshot.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: snap-78a54011

Yes

-c, --create-volume-permission

Modifies the create volume permissions of the snapshot.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: -c

Yes

-a, --add entity

Adds a permission for the specified AWS account or for all accounts.

Type: String

Valid Values: AWS account identifier | all

Default: None

Example: -c --add all

--remove entity

Removes a permission for the specified AWS account or for all accounts.

Type: String

Valid Values: AWS account identifier | all

Default: None

Example: -c --remove all

Common Options

OptionDescription

--region REGION

Overrides the Region specified in the EC2_URL environment variable and the URL specified by the -U option.

Default: The EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if the environment variable is not set.

Example: --region eu-west-1

-U, --url URL

URL is the uniform resource locator of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point.

Default: The EC2_URL environment variable, or https://ec2.amazonaws.com if the environment variable is not set.

Example: -U https://ec2.amazonaws.com

-K, --private-key EC2-PRIVATE-KEY

The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2.

Default: The value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable.

Example: -K pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBEXAMPLE.pem

-C, --cert EC2-CERT

The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2.

Default: The value of the EC2_CERT environment variable.

Example: -C cert-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBEXAMPLE.pem

--connection-timeout TIMEOUT

Specifies a connection timeout (in seconds).

Example: --connection-timeout 30

--request-timeout TIMEOUT

Specifies a request timeout (in seconds).

Example: --request-timeout 45

-v, --verbose

Displays verbose output by showing the SOAP request and response on the command line. This is particularly useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our SOAP API.

-H, --headers

Displays column headers in the output.

--show-empty-fields

Shows empty columns as (nil).

--hide-tags

Do not display tags for tagged resources.

--debug

Prints internal debugging information. This is useful to assist us when troubleshooting problems.

-?, --help, -h

Displays Help.

-

If - is specified as an argument to one of the parameters, a list of arguments is read from standard input. This is useful for piping the output of one command into the input of another.

Example: ec2-describe-instances | grep stopped | cut -f 2 | ec2-start-instances -

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • createVolumePermission Identifier

  • Snapshot ID

  • Account IDs or 'all'

  • Attribute type identifier

  • ID of the snapshot on which attributes are being modified

  • Action performed on the attribute

  • Attribute or attribute list item value type

  • Attribute or attribute list item value

Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example makes the snap-78a54011 snapshot public.

PROMPT> ec2-modify-snapshot-attribute snap-7ddb6e14 -c --add 123456789012
createVolumePermission snap-7ddb6e14 ADD userId 123456789012