CreateEgressOnlyInternetGateway
[IPv6 only] Creates an egress-only internet gateway for your VPC. An egress-only internet gateway is used to enable outbound communication over IPv6 from instances in your VPC to the internet, and prevents hosts outside of your VPC from initiating an IPv6 connection with your instance.
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 that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see Ensuring idempotency.
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 isUnauthorizedOperation
.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- TagSpecification.N
-
The tags to assign to the egress-only internet gateway.
Type: Array of TagSpecification objects
Required: No
- VpcId
-
The ID of the VPC for which to create the egress-only internet gateway.
Type: String
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- clientToken
-
Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request.
Type: String
- egressOnlyInternetGateway
-
Information about the egress-only internet gateway.
Type: EgressOnlyInternetGateway object
- 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 creates an egress-only internet gateway in VPC vpc-1a2b3c4d.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateEgressOnlyInternetGateway
&VpcId=vpc-1a2b3c4d
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<CreateEgressOnlyInternetGatewayResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>c617595f-6c29-4a00-a941-example</requestId>
<egressOnlyInternetGateway>
<attachmentSet>
<item>
<state>attached</state>
<vpcId>vpc-1a2b3c4d</vpcId>
</item>
</attachmentSet>
<egressOnlyInternetGatewayId>eigw-01eadbd45ecd7943f</egressOnlyInternetGatewayId>
</egressOnlyInternetGateway>
</CreateEgressOnlyInternetGatewayResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: