Requester-managed network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Requester-managed network interfaces

A requester-managed network interface is a network interface that an Amazon Web Services service creates in your VPC on your behalf. The network interface is associated with a resource for another service, such as a DB instance from Amazon RDS, a NAT gateway, or an interface VPC endpoint from Amazon PrivateLink.

Considerations
  • You can view the requester-managed network interfaces in your account. You can add or remove tags, but you can't change other properties of a requester-managed network interface.

  • You can't detach a requester-managed network interface.

  • When you delete the resource associated with a requester-managed network interface, the Amazon Web Services service detaches the network interface and deletes it. If the service detached a network interface but didn't delete it, you can delete the detached network interface.

Console
To view requester-managed network interfaces
  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Network & Security, Network Interfaces.

  3. Select the ID of the network interface to open its details page.

  4. The following are the key fields that you can use to determine the purpose of the network interface:

    • Description: A description provided by the Amazon service that created the interface. For example, "VPC Endpoint Interface vpce 089f2123488812123".

    • Requester-managed: Indicates whether the network interface is managed by Amazon.

    • Requester ID: The alias or Amazon account ID of the principal or service that created the network interface. If you created the network interface, this is your Amazon Web Services account ID. Otherwise, another principal or service created it.

Amazon CLI
To view requester-managed network interfaces

Use the describe-network-interfaces command as follows.

aws ec2 describe-network-interfaces \ --filters Name=requester-managed,Values=true \ --query "NetworkInterfaces[*].[Description, InterfaceType]" \ --output table

The following is example output that shows the key fields that you can use to determine the purpose of the network interface: Description and InterfaceType.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | DescribeNetworkInterfaces | +---------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+ | VPC Endpoint Interface: vpce-0f00567fa8477a1e6 | interface | | VPC Endpoint Interface vpce-0d8ddce4be80e4474 | interface | | VPC Endpoint Interface vpce-078221a1e27d1ea5b | vpc_endpoint | | Resource Gateway Interface rgw-0bba03f3d56060135 | interface | | VPC Endpoint Interface: vpce-0cc199f605eaeace7 | interface | | VPC Endpoint Interface vpce-019b90d6f16d4f958 | interface | +---------------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
PowerShell
To view requester-managed network interfaces

Use the Get-EC2NetworkInterface cmdlet as follows.

Get-EC2NetworkInterface -Filter @{Name="requester-managed"; Values="true"} | Select Description, InterfaceType

The following is example output that shows the key fields that you can use to determine the purpose of a network interface: Description and InterfaceType.

Description InterfaceType ----------- ------------- VPC Endpoint Interface: vpce-0f00567fa8477a1e6 interface VPC Endpoint Interface vpce-0d8ddce4be80e4474 interface VPC Endpoint Interface vpce-078221a1e27d1ea5b vpc_endpoint Resource Gateway Interface rgw-0bba03f3d56060135 interface VPC Endpoint Interface: vpce-0cc199f605eaeace7 interface VPC Endpoint Interface vpce-019b90d6f16d4f958 interface