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

Description

Resets an attribute of an AMI to its default value.

[Note]Note

The productCodes attribute cannot be reset.

The short version of this command is ec2rimatt.

Syntax

ec2-reset-image-attribute ami_id -l

Options

NameDescriptionRequired

ami_id

ID of the AMI on which the attribute will be reset.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: ami-15a4417c

Yes

-l, --launch-permission

Describes the launch permissions of the AMI.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: -l

No

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-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBZQ55CLO.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-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBZQ55CLO.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:

  • Attribute type identifier

  • ID of the AMI on which the attribute is being reset

  • Action identifier ("RESET")

Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example resets the launchPermission attribute.

PROMPT> ec2-reset-image-attribute ami-6ba54002 -l
launchPermission ami-6ba54002 RESET