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Describing Snapshots
This section describes how to view snapshots that you created.
AWS Management Console
To describe snapshots
Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
Click Snapshots in the navigation pane.
The console displays a list of all snapshots to which you have access and their status.
To reduce the list, select an option from the Viewing list box. For example, to view only your snapshots, select Owned by Me.
The console displays a new list of snapshots.
To view more information about a snapshot, select it.
Information about the snapshot appears in the lower pane.
Command Line Interface
To describe snapshots, use the ec2-describe-snapshots command.
PROMPT>ec2-describe-snapshots snap-78a54011
Amazon EC2 returns information about the snapshot.
SNAPSHOT snap-78a54011 vol-4d826724 pending 2008-02-15T09:03:58+0000 60% If the snapshot is in the process of being created, the status is pending
and a percentage complete is displayed (e.g., 60%). After the snapshot is complete, its
status changes to completed.
Tip
If you have a large number of snapshots, you can use ec2-describe-snapshots to filter the results to only the snapshots that match the criteria you specify.
API
To describe snapshots, use the DescribeSnapshots action. Construct the following request.
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DescribeSnapshots
&SnapshotId=snapshot-id
&AUTHPARAMSThe following is an example response.
<DescribeSnapshotsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2013-02-01/">
<requestId>26245bae-2c70-4846-82d3-65784e298820</requestId>
<snapshotSet>
<item>
<snapshotId>snap-05b4aa6c</snapshotId>
<volumeId>vol-d11fbbb8</volumeId>
<status>completed</status>
<startTime>2010-03-23T09:43:52.000Z</startTime>
<progress>100%</progress>
<ownerId>999988887777</ownerId>
<volumeSize>20</volumeSize>
<description/>
</item>
</snapshotSet>
</DescribeSnapshotsResponse>Tip
If you have a large number of snapshots, you can use
DescribeSnapshots to filter the list to only the snapshots that
match criteria you specify.
