AssociateVpcCidrBlock - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

AssociateVpcCidrBlock

Associates a CIDR block with your VPC. You can associate a secondary IPv4 CIDR block, an Amazon-provided IPv6 CIDR block, or an IPv6 CIDR block from an IPv6 address pool that you provisioned through bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP).

You must specify one of the following in the request: an IPv4 CIDR block, an IPv6 pool, or an Amazon-provided IPv6 CIDR block.

For more information about associating CIDR blocks with your VPC and applicable restrictions, see IP addressing for your VPCs and subnets in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

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.

AmazonProvidedIpv6CidrBlock

Requests an Amazon-provided IPv6 CIDR block with a /56 prefix length for the VPC. You cannot specify the range of IPv6 addresses or the size of the CIDR block.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

CidrBlock

An IPv4 CIDR block to associate with the VPC.

Type: String

Required: No

Ipv4IpamPoolId

Associate a CIDR allocated from an IPv4 IPAM pool to a VPC. For more information about Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), see What is IPAM? in the Amazon VPC IPAM User Guide.

Type: String

Required: No

Ipv4NetmaskLength

The netmask length of the IPv4 CIDR you would like to associate from an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) pool. For more information about IPAM, see What is IPAM? in the Amazon VPC IPAM User Guide.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Ipv6CidrBlock

An IPv6 CIDR block from the IPv6 address pool. You must also specify Ipv6Pool in the request.

To let Amazon choose the IPv6 CIDR block for you, omit this parameter.

Type: String

Required: No

Ipv6CidrBlockNetworkBorderGroup

The name of the location from which we advertise the IPV6 CIDR block. Use this parameter to limit the CIDR block to this location.

You must set AmazonProvidedIpv6CidrBlock to true to use this parameter.

You can have one IPv6 CIDR block association per network border group.

Type: String

Required: No

Ipv6IpamPoolId

Associates a CIDR allocated from an IPv6 IPAM pool to a VPC. For more information about Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), see What is IPAM? in the Amazon VPC IPAM User Guide.

Type: String

Required: No

Ipv6NetmaskLength

The netmask length of the IPv6 CIDR you would like to associate from an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) pool. For more information about IPAM, see What is IPAM? in the Amazon VPC IPAM User Guide.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Ipv6Pool

The ID of an IPv6 address pool from which to allocate the IPv6 CIDR block.

Type: String

Required: No

VpcId

The ID of the VPC.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

cidrBlockAssociation

Information about the IPv4 CIDR block association.

Type: VpcCidrBlockAssociation object

ipv6CidrBlockAssociation

Information about the IPv6 CIDR block association.

Type: VpcIpv6CidrBlockAssociation object

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

vpcId

The ID of the VPC.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example 1

This example associates an IPv6 CIDR block with VPC vpc-1a2b3c4d.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AssociateVpcCidrBlock &VpcId=vpc-1a2b3c4d &AmazonProvidedIpv6CidrBlock=true &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<AssociateVpcCidrBlock xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/"> <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> <ipv6CidrBlockAssociation> <ipv6CidrBlockState> <state>associating</state> </ipv6CidrBlockState> <associationId>vpc-cidr-assoc-e2a5408b</associationId> </ipv6CidrBlockAssociation> <vpcId>vpc-1a2b3c4d</vpcId> </AssociateVpcCidrBlock>

Example 2

This example associates the IPv4 CIDR block 10.2.0.0/16 with VPC vpc-1a2b3c4d.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=AssociateVpcCidrBlock &VpcId=vpc-1a2b3c4d &CidrBlock=10.2.0.0/16 &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<AssociateVpcCidrBlockResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/"> <requestId>33af6c54-1139-4d50-b4f7-15a8example</requestId> <vpcId>vpc-1a2b3c4d</vpcId> <cidrBlockAssociation> <associationId>vpc-cidr-assoc-0280ab6b</associationId> <cidrBlock>10.2.0.0/16</cidrBlock> <cidrBlockState> <state>associating</state> </cidrBlockState> </cidrBlockAssociation> </AssociateVpcCidrBlockResponse>

See Also

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