AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Exports a running or stopped instance to an Amazon S3 bucket.

For information about the prerequisites for your Amazon S3 bucket, supported operating systems, image formats, and known limitations for the types of instances you can export, see Exporting an instance as a VM Using VM Import/Export in the VM Import/Export User Guide.

Note:

This is an asynchronous operation using the standard naming convention for .NET 4.5 or higher. For .NET 3.5 the operation is implemented as a pair of methods using the standard naming convention of BeginCreateInstanceExportTask and EndCreateInstanceExportTask.

Namespace: Amazon.EC2
Assembly: AWSSDK.EC2.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public virtual Task<CreateInstanceExportTaskResponse> CreateInstanceExportTaskAsync(
         CreateInstanceExportTaskRequest request,
         CancellationToken cancellationToken
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.EC2.Model.CreateInstanceExportTaskRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the CreateInstanceExportTask service method.

cancellationToken
Type: System.Threading.CancellationToken

A cancellation token that can be used by other objects or threads to receive notice of cancellation.

Return Value


The response from the CreateInstanceExportTask service method, as returned by EC2.

Version Information

.NET Core App:
Supported in: 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5

See Also