CopyImage - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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CopyImage

Initiates an AMI copy operation. You must specify the source AMI ID and both the source and destination locations. The copy operation must be initiated in the destination Region.

CopyImage supports the following source to destination copies:

  • Region to Region

  • Region to Outpost

  • Parent Region to Local Zone

  • Local Zone to parent Region

  • Between Local Zones with the same parent Region (only supported for certain Local Zones)

CopyImage does not support the following source to destination copies:

  • Local Zone to non-parent Regions

  • Between Local Zones with different parent Regions

  • Local Zone to Outpost

  • Outpost to Local Zone

  • Outpost to Region

  • Between Outposts

  • Within same Outpost

  • Cross-partition copies (use CreateStoreImageTask instead)

Destination specification

  • Region to Region: The destination Region is the Region in which you initiate the copy operation.

  • Region to Outpost: Specify the destination using the DestinationOutpostArn parameter (the ARN of the Outpost)

  • Region to Local Zone, and Local Zone to Local Zone copies: Specify the destination using the DestinationAvailabilityZone parameter (the name of the destination Local Zone) or DestinationAvailabilityZoneId parameter (the ID of the destination Local Zone).

Snapshot encryption

  • Region to Outpost: Backing snapshots copied to an Outpost are encrypted by default using the default encryption key for the Region or the key that you specify. Outposts do not support unencrypted snapshots.

  • Region to Local Zone, and Local Zone to Local Zone: Not all Local Zones require encrypted snapshots. In Local Zones that require encrypted snapshots, backing snapshots are automatically encrypted during copy. In Local Zones where encryption is not required, snapshots retain their original encryption state (encrypted or unencrypted) by default.

For more information, including the required permissions for copying an AMI, see Copy an Amazon EC2 AMI in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

ClientToken

Unique, case-sensitive identifier you provide to ensure idempotency of the request. For more information, see Ensuring idempotency in Amazon EC2 API requests in the Amazon EC2 API Reference.

Type: String

Required: No

CopyImageTags

Specifies whether to copy your user-defined AMI tags to the new AMI.

The following tags are not be copied:

  • System tags (prefixed with aws:)

  • For public and shared AMIs, user-defined tags that are attached by other Amazon accounts

Default: Your user-defined AMI tags are not copied.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Description

A description for the new AMI.

Type: String

Required: No

DestinationAvailabilityZone

The Local Zone for the new AMI (for example, cn-north-1-pkx-1a).

Only one of DestinationAvailabilityZone, DestinationAvailabilityZoneId, or DestinationOutpostArn can be specified.

Type: String

Required: No

DestinationAvailabilityZoneId

The ID of the Local Zone for the new AMI (for example, cnn1-pkx1-az1).

Only one of DestinationAvailabilityZone, DestinationAvailabilityZoneId, or DestinationOutpostArn can be specified.

Type: String

Required: No

DestinationOutpostArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Outpost for the new AMI.

Only specify this parameter when copying an AMI from an Amazon Region to an Outpost. The AMI must be in the Region of the destination Outpost. You can't copy an AMI from an Outpost to a Region, from one Outpost to another, or within the same Outpost.

For more information, see Copy AMIs from an Amazon Region to an Outpost in the Amazon EBS User Guide.

Only one of DestinationAvailabilityZone, DestinationAvailabilityZoneId, or DestinationOutpostArn can be specified.

Type: String

Required: No

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Encrypted

Specifies whether to encrypt the snapshots of the copied image.

You can encrypt a copy of an unencrypted snapshot, but you cannot create an unencrypted copy of an encrypted snapshot. The default KMS key for Amazon EBS is used unless you specify a non-default Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS) KMS key using KmsKeyId. For more information, see Use encryption with EBS-backed AMIs in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

KmsKeyId

The identifier of the symmetric Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS) KMS key to use when creating encrypted volumes. If this parameter is not specified, your Amazon managed KMS key for Amazon EBS is used. If you specify a KMS key, you must also set the encrypted state to true.

You can specify a KMS key using any of the following:

  • Key ID. For example, 1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab.

  • Key alias. For example, alias/ExampleAlias.

  • Key ARN. For example, arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:012345678910:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab.

  • Alias ARN. For example, arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:012345678910:alias/ExampleAlias.

Amazon authenticates the KMS key asynchronously. Therefore, if you specify an identifier that is not valid, the action can appear to complete, but eventually fails.

The specified KMS key must exist in the destination Region.

Amazon EBS does not support asymmetric KMS keys.

Type: String

Required: No

Name

The name of the new AMI.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SnapshotCopyCompletionDurationMinutes

Specify a completion duration, in 15 minute increments, to initiate a time-based AMI copy. The specified completion duration applies to each of the snapshots associated with the AMI. Each snapshot associated with the AMI will be completed within the specified completion duration, with copy throughput automatically adjusted for each snapshot based on its size to meet the timing target.

If you do not specify a value, the AMI copy operation is completed on a best-effort basis.

Note

This parameter is not supported when copying an AMI to or from a Local Zone, or to an Outpost.

For more information, see Time-based copies for Amazon EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs.

Type: Long

Required: No

SourceImageId

The ID of the AMI to copy.

Type: String

Required: Yes

SourceRegion

The name of the Region that contains the AMI to copy.

Type: String

Required: Yes

TagSpecification.N

The tags to apply to the new AMI and new snapshots. You can tag the AMI, the snapshots, or both.

  • To tag the new AMI, the value for ResourceType must be image.

  • To tag the new snapshots, the value for ResourceType must be snapshot. The same tag is applied to all the new snapshots.

If you specify other values for ResourceType, the request fails.

To tag an AMI or snapshot after it has been created, see CreateTags.

Type: Array of TagSpecification objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

imageId

The ID of the new AMI.

Type: String

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example

This example request copies the AMI in us-west-2 with the ID ami-1a2b3c4d, naming the new AMI My-Standard-AMI.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CopyImage
&SourceRegion=us-west-2
&SourceImageId=ami-1a2b3c4d  
&Name=My-Standard-AMI
&Description=This%20is%20the%20new%20version%20of%20My-Standard-AMI     
&ClientToken=550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<CopyImageResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
   <requestId>60bc441d-fa2c-494d-b155-5d6a3EXAMPLE</requestId>
   <imageId>ami-4d3c2b1a</imageId>
</CopyImageResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: