PutAccountPreferences - Amazon Elastic File System
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PutAccountPreferences

Use this operation to set the account preference in the current Amazon Web Services Region to use long 17 character (63 bit) or short 8 character (32 bit) resource IDs for new EFS file system and mount target resources. All existing resource IDs are not affected by any changes you make. You can set the ID preference during the opt-in period as EFS transitions to long resource IDs. For more information, see Managing Amazon EFS resource IDs.

Note

Starting in October, 2021, you will receive an error if you try to set the account preference to use the short 8 character format resource ID. Contact Amazon support if you receive an error and must use short IDs for file system and mount target resources.

Request Syntax

PUT /2015-02-01/account-preferences HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "ResourceIdType": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ResourceIdType

Specifies the EFS resource ID preference to set for the user's Amazon Web Services account, in the current Amazon Web Services Region, either LONG_ID (17 characters), or SHORT_ID (8 characters).

Note

Starting in October, 2021, you will receive an error when setting the account preference to SHORT_ID. Contact Amazon support if you receive an error and must use short IDs for file system and mount target resources.

Type: String

Valid Values: LONG_ID | SHORT_ID

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "ResourceIdPreference": { "ResourceIdType": "string", "Resources": [ "string" ] } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ResourceIdPreference

Describes the resource type and its ID preference for the user's Amazon Web Services account, in the current Amazon Web Services Region.

Type: ResourceIdPreference object

Errors

BadRequest

Returned if the request is malformed or contains an error such as an invalid parameter value or a missing required parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerError

Returned if an error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also

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