RebootInstances

The RebootInstances operation requests a reboot of one or more instances. This operation is asynchronous; it only queues a request to reboot the specified instance(s). The operation will succeed provided the instances are valid and belong to the user. Terminated instances will be ignored.

The following table describes the request parameters for RebootInstances. Parameter names are case sensitive.

Element NameDefinitionRequired?Type
instancesSet One or more instance IDs returned from previous calls to RunInstances. Yesxsd:string[]

The following table describes the default response tags included in RebootInstances responses.

Element NameDefinitionType
resultAn indication of whether the request was successful.xsd:boolean
<RebootInstances xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2007-01-19">
    <instancesSet>
      <item>
        <instanceId>i-28a64341</instanceId>
      </item>
    </instancesSet>
</RebootInstances>
<RebootInstancesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2007-01-19">
      <boolean>true<boolean>
</RebootInstancesResponse>