DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions

Describes one or more versions of a specified launch template. You can describe all versions, individual versions, or a range of versions. You can also describe all the latest versions or all the default versions of all the launch templates in your account.

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.

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

Filter.N

One or more filters.

  • create-time - The time the launch template version was created.

  • ebs-optimized - A boolean that indicates whether the instance is optimized for Amazon EBS I/O.

  • http-endpoint - Indicates whether the HTTP metadata endpoint on your instances is enabled (enabled | disabled).

  • http-protocol-ipv4 - Indicates whether the IPv4 endpoint for the instance metadata service is enabled (enabled | disabled).

  • host-resource-group-arn - The ARN of the host resource group in which to launch the instances.

  • http-tokens - The state of token usage for your instance metadata requests (optional | required).

  • iam-instance-profile - The ARN of the IAM instance profile.

  • image-id - The ID of the AMI.

  • instance-type - The instance type.

  • is-default-version - A boolean that indicates whether the launch template version is the default version.

  • kernel-id - The kernel ID.

  • license-configuration-arn - The ARN of the license configuration.

  • network-card-index - The index of the network card.

  • ram-disk-id - The RAM disk ID.

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

LaunchTemplateId

The ID of the launch template.

To describe one or more versions of a specified launch template, you must specify either the launch template ID or the launch template name, but not both.

To describe all the latest or default launch template versions in your account, you must omit this parameter.

Type: String

Required: No

LaunchTemplateName

The name of the launch template.

To describe one or more versions of a specified launch template, you must specify either the launch template name or the launch template ID, but not both.

To describe all the latest or default launch template versions in your account, you must omit this parameter.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9\(\)\.\-/_]+

Required: No

LaunchTemplateVersion.N

One or more versions of the launch template. Valid values depend on whether you are describing a specified launch template (by ID or name) or all launch templates in your account.

To describe one or more versions of a specified launch template, valid values are $Latest, $Default, and numbers.

To describe all launch templates in your account that are defined as the latest version, the valid value is $Latest. To describe all launch templates in your account that are defined as the default version, the valid value is $Default. You can specify $Latest and $Default in the same request. You cannot specify numbers.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

MaxResults

The maximum number of results to return in a single call. To retrieve the remaining results, make another call with the returned NextToken value. This value can be between 1 and 200.

Type: Integer

Required: No

MaxVersion

The version number up to which to describe launch template versions.

Type: String

Required: No

MinVersion

The version number after which to describe launch template versions.

Type: String

Required: No

NextToken

The token to request the next page of results.

Type: String

Required: No

ResolveAlias

If true, and if a Systems Manager parameter is specified for ImageId, the AMI ID is displayed in the response for imageId.

If false, and if a Systems Manager parameter is specified for ImageId, the parameter is displayed in the response for imageId.

For more information, see Use a Systems Manager parameter instead of an AMI ID in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Default: false

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

launchTemplateVersionSet

Information about the launch template versions.

Type: Array of LaunchTemplateVersion objects

nextToken

The token to use to retrieve the next page of results. This value is null when there are no more results to return.

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 1

This example describes all versions of launch template lt-0a20c965061f64abc up to version 3.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions
&LaunchTemplateId=lt-0a20c965061f64abc
&MaxVersion=3
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DescribeLaunchTemplateVersionsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
    <requestId>65cadec1-b364-4354-8ca8-4176dexample</requestId>
    <launchTemplateVersionSet>
        <item>
            <createTime>2017-10-31T11:38:52.000Z</createTime>
            <createdBy>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root</createdBy>
            <defaultVersion>true</defaultVersion>
            <launchTemplateData>
                <imageId>ami-8c1be5f6</imageId>
                <instanceType>t2.micro</instanceType>
            </launchTemplateData>
            <launchTemplateId>lt-0a20c965061f64abc</launchTemplateId>
            <launchTemplateName>MyLaunchTemplate</launchTemplateName>
            <versionDescription>FirstVersion</versionDescription>
            <versionNumber>1</versionNumber>
        </item>
        <item>
            <createTime>2017-10-31T11:52:03.000Z</createTime>
            <createdBy>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root</createdBy>
            <defaultVersion>false</defaultVersion>
            <launchTemplateData>
                <imageId>ami-12345678</imageId>
            </launchTemplateData>
            <launchTemplateId>lt-0a20c965061f64abc</launchTemplateId>
            <launchTemplateName>MyLaunchTemplate</launchTemplateName>
            <versionDescription>AMIOnlyv1</versionDescription>
            <versionNumber>2</versionNumber>
        </item>
        <item>
            <createTime>2017-10-31T11:55:15.000Z</createTime>
            <createdBy>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root</createdBy>
            <defaultVersion>false</defaultVersion>
            <launchTemplateData>
                <imageId>ami-aabbccdd</imageId>
            </launchTemplateData>
            <launchTemplateId>lt-0a20c965061f64abc</launchTemplateId>
            <launchTemplateName>MyLaunchTemplate</launchTemplateName>
            <versionDescription>AMIOnlyv2</versionDescription>
            <versionNumber>3</versionNumber>
        </item>
    </launchTemplateVersionSet>
</DescribeLaunchTemplateVersionsResponse>

Example 2

This example describes all the latest versions of the launch templates in your account.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions
&LaunchTemplateVersion.1=$Latest
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DescribeLaunchTemplateVersionsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
    <requestId>65cadec1-b364-4354-8ca8-4176dexample</requestId>
    <launchTemplateVersionSet>
        <item>
            <createTime>2020-01-31T11:38:52.000Z</createTime>
            <createdBy>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root</createdBy>
            <defaultVersion>true</defaultVersion>
            <launchTemplateData>
                <imageId>ami-8c1be5f6</imageId>
                <instanceType>t2.micro</instanceType>
            </launchTemplateData>
            <launchTemplateId>lt-1111111111EXAMPLE</launchTemplateId>
            <launchTemplateName>MyLaunchTemplate1</launchTemplateName>
            <versionDescription>FirstTemplate</versionDescription>
            <versionNumber>1</versionNumber>
        </item>
        <item>
            <createTime>2020-02-14T11:52:03.000Z</createTime>
            <createdBy>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root</createdBy>
            <defaultVersion>false</defaultVersion>
            <launchTemplateData>
                <imageId>ami-12345678</imageId>
                <instanceType>t2.micro</instanceType>
            </launchTemplateData>
            <launchTemplateId>lt-2222222222EXAMPLE</launchTemplateId>
            <launchTemplateName>MyLaunchTemplate2</launchTemplateName>
            <versionDescription>ThirdVersion</versionDescription>
            <versionNumber>3</versionNumber>
        </item>
        <item>
            <createTime>2020-03-03T11:55:15.000Z</createTime>
            <createdBy>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root</createdBy>
            <defaultVersion>false</defaultVersion>
            <launchTemplateData>
                <imageId>ami-aabbccdd</imageId>
                <instanceType>t3.small</instanceType>
            </launchTemplateData>
            <launchTemplateId>lt-3333333333EXAMPLE</launchTemplateId>
            <launchTemplateName>MyLaunchTemplate3</launchTemplateName>
            <versionDescription>AMIOnlyv2</versionDescription>
            <versionNumber>2</versionNumber>
        </item>
    </launchTemplateVersionSet>
</DescribeLaunchTemplateVersionsResponse>

See Also

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