AWS Import/Export
Developer Guide (API Version 2010-06-03)
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Document History

This documentation is associated with the 2010-06-03 version of AWS Import/Export.

Relevant Dates to this History:

  • Current product version—2010-06-03

  • Latest product release—July 2011

  • Last document update—29 Aug 2011

ChangeDescriptionRelease Date
API version correction.

The correct, current API version is 2010-06-03.

In this Release
New instructions for locating your Amazon EBS Snapshot.

After a successful upload of data to an Amazon EBS Snapshot, you can find the data in the AWS Management Console for Amazon EC2. See Your Amazon EBS Snapshot in the AWS Management Console.

2 Aug 2011
New Getting Started instructions for importing data to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

AWS Import/Export now supports importing data to Amazon EBS snapshots. Amazon EBS snapshots can be converted into volumes for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

For more information, see Create Your First Amazon EBS Import Job.

7 July 2011
New instructions for preparing an import job to Amazon EBS.

An import job to Amazon EBS follows a different process than an import job to Amazon S3.

For more information, see Creating Amazon EBS Import Jobs.

7 July 2011
New manifest file options for an import job to Amazon EBS.

An import job to Amazon EBS has its own unique manifest file options.

For more information, see Import to Amazon EBS Manifest File Options.

7 July 2011
New import manifest options for adding metadata

AWS Import/Export has new manifest options for users to better manage their data loads into Amazon S3.

For import jobs, you can assign user defined metadata to all objects and a metadata value to store the last modified time stamp for each imported file. See the diskTimestampMetadataKey and staticMetadata options in Import to Amazon S3 Manifest File Options.

22 March 2011
A new common manifest option for modifying object keys and file names

Modify uploaded object keys and downloaded filenames with the substitutions option. This option allows you to specify rules for naming the keys when importing data to Amazon S3, and filenames when exporting data to your device. See the substitutions option in Common Manifest File Options

22 March 2011
AWS Import/Export US West (Northern California) region support

AWS Import/Export now supports importing and exporting data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the US West (Northern California) region.

1 February 2011
AWS Import/Export Asia Pacific (Singapore) region support

AWS Import/Export now supports importing and exporting data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.

28 December 2010
Support for large objects

AWS Import/Export now supports importing and exporting objects up to 5 TB in size.

9 December 2010
AWS Import/Export becomes a web service

AWS Import/Export is now a web service. In previous versions of this product, you used email to create and manage jobs. Those email commands and procedures are being deprecated and will stop working on December 31, 2010. This guide no longer contains those commands.

9 June 2010
AWS Import/Export command line interfaceIn addition to the new web service API, AWS Import/Export now has a command line interface. For more information, go to AWS Import/Export Command Line Quick Reference Card.9 June 2010
New support for internal SATA and 4 TB device capacity limit

AWS Import/Export now supports internal SATA hard drives for data loads in the Amazon S3 Standard and EU (Ireland) Regions. Additionally, you can now send portable storage devices with capacities up to 4 TB, reducing the number of devices required for large data loads. For more information, see Storage Device Requirements When Shipping to the United States.

5 March 2010
International support for AWS Import/Export

Now you can send and receive storage devices to and from most international locations for loading data to and from US Standard Region buckets. For more information, see Shipping Your Storage Device.

9 December 2009
Support for EU (Ireland) buckets

Now you can import and export data to and from EU (Ireland) buckets. For more information, see AWS Shipping Addresses.

9 December 2009