AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DescribeNetworkInterfaces API operation.

Syntax

Get-EC2NetworkInterface
-NetworkInterfaceId <String[]>
-Filter <Filter[]>
-MaxResult <Int32>
-NextToken <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-NoAutoIteration <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonEC2Config>

Description

Describes one or more of your network interfaces. If you have a large number of network interfaces, the operation fails unless you use pagination or one of the following filters: group-id, mac-address, private-dns-name, private-ip-address, private-dns-name, subnet-id, or vpc-id. We strongly recommend using only paginated requests. Unpaginated requests are susceptible to throttling and timeouts.

This cmdlet automatically pages all available results to the pipeline - parameters related to iteration are only needed if you want to manually control the paginated output. To disable autopagination, use -NoAutoIteration.

Parameters

-ClientConfig <AmazonEC2Config>
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.EC2.AmazonEC2ClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Filter <Filter[]>
One or more filters.
  • association.allocation-id - The allocation ID returned when you allocated the Elastic IP address (IPv4) for your network interface.
  • association.association-id - The association ID returned when the network interface was associated with an IPv4 address.
  • addresses.association.owner-id - The owner ID of the addresses associated with the network interface.
  • addresses.association.public-ip - The association ID returned when the network interface was associated with the Elastic IP address (IPv4).
  • addresses.primary - Whether the private IPv4 address is the primary IP address associated with the network interface.
  • addresses.private-ip-address - The private IPv4 addresses associated with the network interface.
  • association.ip-owner-id - The owner of the Elastic IP address (IPv4) associated with the network interface.
  • association.public-ip - The address of the Elastic IP address (IPv4) bound to the network interface.
  • association.public-dns-name - The public DNS name for the network interface (IPv4).
  • attachment.attach-time - The time that the network interface was attached to an instance.
  • attachment.attachment-id - The ID of the interface attachment.
  • attachment.delete-on-termination - Indicates whether the attachment is deleted when an instance is terminated.
  • attachment.device-index - The device index to which the network interface is attached.
  • attachment.instance-id - The ID of the instance to which the network interface is attached.
  • attachment.instance-owner-id - The owner ID of the instance to which the network interface is attached.
  • attachment.status - The status of the attachment (attaching | attached | detaching | detached).
  • availability-zone - The Availability Zone of the network interface.
  • description - The description of the network interface.
  • group-id - The ID of a security group associated with the network interface.
  • ipv6-addresses.ipv6-address - An IPv6 address associated with the network interface.
  • interface-type - The type of network interface (api_gateway_managed | aws_codestar_connections_managed | branch | ec2_instance_connect_endpoint | efa | efs | gateway_load_balancer | gateway_load_balancer_endpoint | global_accelerator_managed | interface | iot_rules_managed | lambda | load_balancer | nat_gateway | network_load_balancer | quicksight | transit_gateway | trunk | vpc_endpoint).
  • mac-address - The MAC address of the network interface.
  • network-interface-id - The ID of the network interface.
  • owner-id - The Amazon Web Services account ID of the network interface owner.
  • private-dns-name - The private DNS name of the network interface (IPv4).
  • private-ip-address - The private IPv4 address or addresses of the network interface.
  • requester-id - The alias or Amazon Web Services account ID of the principal or service that created the network interface.
  • requester-managed - Indicates whether the network interface is being managed by an Amazon Web Service (for example, Amazon Web Services Management Console, Auto Scaling, and so on).
  • source-dest-check - Indicates whether the network interface performs source/destination checking. A value of true means checking is enabled, and false means checking is disabled. The value must be false for the network interface to perform network address translation (NAT) in your VPC.
  • status - The status of the network interface. If the network interface is not attached to an instance, the status is available; if a network interface is attached to an instance the status is in-use.
  • subnet-id - The ID of the subnet for the network interface.
  • tag:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.
  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.
  • vpc-id - The ID of the VPC for the network interface.
Required?False
Position?2
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesFilters
-MaxResult <Int32>
The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. You cannot specify this parameter and the network interface IDs parameter in the same request. For more information, see Pagination.
Note: In AWSPowerShell and AWSPowerShell.NetCore this parameter is used to limit the total number of items returned by the cmdlet.
In AWS.Tools this parameter is simply passed to the service to specify how many items should be returned by each service call.
Pipe the output of this cmdlet into Select-Object -First to terminate retrieving data pages early and control the number of items returned.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesMaxItems, MaxResults
-NetworkInterfaceId <String[]>
The network interface IDs.Default: Describes all your network interfaces.
Required?False
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
AliasesNetworkInterfaceIds
-NextToken <String>
The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.
Note: This parameter is only used if you are manually controlling output pagination of the service API call.
In order to manually control output pagination, use '-NextToken $null' for the first call and '-NextToken $AWSHistory.LastServiceResponse.NextToken' for subsequent calls.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NoAutoIteration <SwitchParameter>
By default the cmdlet will auto-iterate and retrieve all results to the pipeline by performing multiple service calls. If set, the cmdlet will retrieve only the next 'page' of results using the value of NextToken as the start point.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the NetworkInterfaceId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^NetworkInterfaceId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'NetworkInterfaces'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeNetworkInterfacesResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeNetworkInterfacesResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

Amazon.EC2.Model.NetworkInterface or Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeNetworkInterfacesResponse
This cmdlet returns a collection of Amazon.EC2.Model.NetworkInterface objects. The service call response (type Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeNetworkInterfacesResponse) can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.

Examples

Example 1

Get-EC2NetworkInterface -NetworkInterfaceId eni-12345678

Association        :
Attachment         : Amazon.EC2.Model.NetworkInterfaceAttachment
AvailabilityZone   : us-west-2c
Description        :
Groups             : {my-security-group}
MacAddress         : 0a:e9:a6:19:4c:7f
NetworkInterfaceId : eni-12345678
OwnerId            : 123456789012
PrivateDnsName     : ip-10-0-0-107.us-west-2.compute.internal
PrivateIpAddress   : 10.0.0.107
PrivateIpAddresses : {ip-10-0-0-107.us-west-2.compute.internal}
RequesterId        :
RequesterManaged   : False
SourceDestCheck    : True
Status             : in-use
SubnetId           : subnet-1a2b3c4d
TagSet             : {}
VpcId              : vpc-12345678
This example describes the specified network interface.

Example 2

Get-EC2NetworkInterface
This example describes all your network interfaces.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z