Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

GetInstanceUefiData

A binary representation of the UEFI variable store. Only non-volatile variables are stored. This is a base64 encoded and zlib compressed binary value that must be properly encoded.

When you use register-image to create an AMI, you can create an exact copy of your variable store by passing the UEFI data in the UefiData parameter. You can modify the UEFI data by using the python-uefivars tool on GitHub. You can use the tool to convert the UEFI data into a human-readable format (JSON), which you can inspect and modify, and then convert back into the binary format to use with register-image.

For more information, see UEFI Secure Boot 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.

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

InstanceId

The ID of the instance from which to retrieve the UEFI data.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

instanceId

The ID of the instance from which to retrieve the UEFI data.

Type: String

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

uefiData

Base64 representation of the non-volatile UEFI variable store.

Type: String

Errors

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