CreateNetworkInterface - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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CreateNetworkInterface

Creates a network interface in the specified subnet.

The number of IP addresses you can assign to a network interface varies by instance type.

For more information about network interfaces, see Elastic network interfaces in the Amazon EC2 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.

ClientToken

Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see Ensuring idempotency.

Type: String

Required: No

ConnectionTrackingSpecification

A connection tracking specification for the network interface.

Type: ConnectionTrackingSpecificationRequest object

Required: No

Description

A description for the network interface.

Type: String

Required: No

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

EnablePrimaryIpv6

If you’re creating a network interface in a dual-stack or IPv6-only subnet, you have the option to assign a primary IPv6 IP address. A primary IPv6 address is an IPv6 GUA address associated with an ENI that you have enabled to use a primary IPv6 address. Use this option if the instance that this ENI will be attached to relies on its IPv6 address not changing. AWS will automatically assign an IPv6 address associated with the ENI attached to your instance to be the primary IPv6 address. Once you enable an IPv6 GUA address to be a primary IPv6, you cannot disable it. When you enable an IPv6 GUA address to be a primary IPv6, the first IPv6 GUA will be made the primary IPv6 address until the instance is terminated or the network interface is detached. If you have multiple IPv6 addresses associated with an ENI attached to your instance and you enable a primary IPv6 address, the first IPv6 GUA address associated with the ENI becomes the primary IPv6 address.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

InterfaceType

The type of network interface. The default is interface.

If you specify efa-only, do not assign any IP addresses to the network interface. EFA-only network interfaces do not support IP addresses.

Type: String

Valid Values: interface | efa | efa-only | trunk

Required: No

Ipv4Prefix.N

The IPv4 prefixes assigned to the network interface.

You can't specify IPv4 prefixes if you've specified one of the following: a count of IPv4 prefixes, specific private IPv4 addresses, or a count of private IPv4 addresses.

Type: Array of Ipv4PrefixSpecificationRequest objects

Required: No

Ipv4PrefixCount

The number of IPv4 prefixes that AWS automatically assigns to the network interface.

You can't specify a count of IPv4 prefixes if you've specified one of the following: specific IPv4 prefixes, specific private IPv4 addresses, or a count of private IPv4 addresses.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Ipv6AddressCount

The number of IPv6 addresses to assign to a network interface. Amazon EC2 automatically selects the IPv6 addresses from the subnet range.

You can't specify a count of IPv6 addresses using this parameter if you've specified one of the following: specific IPv6 addresses, specific IPv6 prefixes, or a count of IPv6 prefixes.

If your subnet has the AssignIpv6AddressOnCreation attribute set, you can override that setting by specifying 0 as the IPv6 address count.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Ipv6Addresses.N

The IPv6 addresses from the IPv6 CIDR block range of your subnet.

You can't specify IPv6 addresses using this parameter if you've specified one of the following: a count of IPv6 addresses, specific IPv6 prefixes, or a count of IPv6 prefixes.

Type: Array of InstanceIpv6Address objects

Required: No

Ipv6Prefix.N

The IPv6 prefixes assigned to the network interface.

You can't specify IPv6 prefixes if you've specified one of the following: a count of IPv6 prefixes, specific IPv6 addresses, or a count of IPv6 addresses.

Type: Array of Ipv6PrefixSpecificationRequest objects

Required: No

Ipv6PrefixCount

The number of IPv6 prefixes that AWS automatically assigns to the network interface.

You can't specify a count of IPv6 prefixes if you've specified one of the following: specific IPv6 prefixes, specific IPv6 addresses, or a count of IPv6 addresses.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Operator

Reserved for internal use.

Type: OperatorRequest object

Required: No

PrivateIpAddress

The primary private IPv4 address of the network interface. If you don't specify an IPv4 address, Amazon EC2 selects one for you from the subnet's IPv4 CIDR range. If you specify an IP address, you cannot indicate any IP addresses specified in privateIpAddresses as primary (only one IP address can be designated as primary).

Type: String

Required: No

PrivateIpAddresses.N

The private IPv4 addresses.

You can't specify private IPv4 addresses if you've specified one of the following: a count of private IPv4 addresses, specific IPv4 prefixes, or a count of IPv4 prefixes.

Type: Array of PrivateIpAddressSpecification objects

Required: No

SecondaryPrivateIpAddressCount

The number of secondary private IPv4 addresses to assign to a network interface. When you specify a number of secondary IPv4 addresses, Amazon EC2 selects these IP addresses within the subnet's IPv4 CIDR range. You can't specify this option and specify more than one private IP address using privateIpAddresses.

You can't specify a count of private IPv4 addresses if you've specified one of the following: specific private IPv4 addresses, specific IPv4 prefixes, or a count of IPv4 prefixes.

Type: Integer

Required: No

SecurityGroupId.N

The IDs of the security groups.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

SubnetId

The ID of the subnet to associate with the network interface.

Type: String

Required: Yes

TagSpecification.N

The tags to apply to the new network interface.

Type: Array of TagSpecification objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

clientToken

The token to use to retrieve the next page of results. This value is null when there are no more results to return.

Type: String

networkInterface

Information about the network interface.

Type: NetworkInterface object

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

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

Examples

Example 1

This example creates a network interface in the specified subnet with a primary IPv4 address that is automatically selected by Amazon EC2.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateNetworkInterface
&SubnetId=subnet-b2a249da
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<CreateNetworkInterfaceResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
 <requestId>8dbe591e-5a22-48cb-b948-example</requestId>
    <networkInterface>
        <networkInterfaceId>eni-cfca76a6</networkInterfaceId>
        <subnetId>subnet-b2a249da</subnetId>
        <vpcId>vpc-c31dafaa</vpcId>
        <availabilityZone>ap-southeast-1b</availabilityZone>
        <description/>
        <ownerId>251839141158</ownerId>
        <requesterManaged>false</requesterManaged>
        <status>available</status>
        <macAddress>02:74:b0:72:79:61</macAddress>
        <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.157</privateIpAddress>
        <privateDnsName>ip-10-0-2-157.ap-southeast-1.compute.internal</privateDnsName>
        <sourceDestCheck>true</sourceDestCheck>
        <groupSet>
            <item>
                <groupId>sg-1a2b3c4d</groupId>
                <groupName>default</groupName>
            </item>
        </groupSet>
        <tagSet/>
        <privateIpAddressesSet>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.157</privateIpAddress>
                <privateDnsName>ip-10-0-2-157.ap-southeast-1.compute.internal</privateDnsName>
                <primary>true</primary>
            </item>
        </privateIpAddressesSet>
        <ipv6AddressesSet/>
    </networkInterface>
</CreateNetworkInterfaceResponse>

Example 2

This example creates a network interface in the specified subnet with a primary IPv4 address of 10.0.2.140 and four secondary private IPv4 addresses that are automatically selected by Amazon EC2.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateNetworkInterface
&PrivateIpAddresses.1.Primary=true
&PrivateIpAddresses.1.PrivateIpAddress=10.0.2.140
&SecondaryPrivateIpAddressCount=4
&SubnetId=subnet-a61dafcf
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<CreateNetworkInterfaceResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
 <requestId>bd78c839-0895-4fac-a17f-example</requestId>
    <networkInterface>
        <networkInterfaceId>eni-1bcb7772</networkInterfaceId>
        <subnetId>subnet-a61dafcf</subnetId>
        <vpcId>vpc-c31dafaa</vpcId>
        <availabilityZone>ap-southeast-1b</availabilityZone>
        <description/>
        <ownerId>251839141158</ownerId>
        <requesterManaged>false</requesterManaged>
        <status>pending</status>
        <macAddress>02:74:b0:70:7f:1a</macAddress>
        <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.140</privateIpAddress>
        <sourceDestCheck>true</sourceDestCheck>
        <groupSet>
            <item>
                <groupId>sg-1a2b3c4d</groupId>
                <groupName>default</groupName>
            </item>
        </groupSet>
        <tagSet/>
        <privateIpAddressesSet>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.140</privateIpAddress>
                <primary>true</primary>
            </item>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.172</privateIpAddress>
                <primary>false</primary>
            </item>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.169</privateIpAddress>
                <primary>false</primary>
            </item>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.170</privateIpAddress>
                <primary>false</primary>
            </item>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.171</privateIpAddress>
                <primary>false</primary>
            </item>
        </privateIpAddressesSet>
        <ipv6AddressesSet/>
    </networkInterface>
</CreateNetworkInterfaceResponse>

Example 3

This example creates a network interface with a primary private IPv4 address of 10.0.2.130 and two secondary IPv4 addresses of 10.0.2.132 and 10.0.2.133.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateNetworkInterface
&PrivateIpAddresses.1.Primary=true
&PrivateIpAddresses.1.PrivateIpAddress=10.0.2.130
&PrivateIpAddresses.2.Primary=false
&PrivateIpAddresses.2.PrivateIpAddress=10.0.2.132
&PrivateIpAddresses.3.Primary=false
&PrivateIpAddresses.3.PrivateIpAddress=10.0.2.133
&SubnetId=subnet-a61dafcf
&AUTHPARAMS

Example 4

This example creates a network interface with a primary private IPv4 address of 10.0.2.130 and two IPv6 addresses that are selected by Amazon EC2.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateNetworkInterface
&PrivateIpAddresses.1.Primary=true
&PrivateIpAddresses.1.PrivateIpAddress=10.0.2.130
&Ipv6AddressCount=2
&SubnetId=subnet-a61dafcf
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<CreateNetworkInterfaceResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>a9565f4c-f928-4113-859b-example</requestId>
    <networkInterface>
        <networkInterfaceId>eni-41c47828</networkInterfaceId>
        <subnetId>subnet-a61dafcf</subnetId>
        <vpcId>vpc-c31dafaa</vpcId>
        <availabilityZone>ap-southeast-1b</availabilityZone>
        <description/>
        <ownerId>251839141158</ownerId>
        <requesterManaged>false</requesterManaged>
        <status>pending</status>
        <macAddress>02:74:b0:78:bf:ab</macAddress>
        <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.130</privateIpAddress>
        <sourceDestCheck>true</sourceDestCheck>
        <groupSet>
            <item>
                <groupId>sg-188d9f74</groupId>
                <groupName>default</groupName>
            </item>
        </groupSet>
        <tagSet/>
        <privateIpAddressesSet>
            <item>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.2.130</privateIpAddress>
                <primary>true</primary>
            </item>
        </privateIpAddressesSet>
        <ipv6AddressesSet>
         <item>
           <ipv6Address>2001:db8:1234:1a00::123</ipv6Address>
         </item>
         <item>
           <ipv6Address>2001:db8:1234:1a00::456</ipv6Address>
         </item>
       </ipv6AddressesSet>
    </networkInterface>
</CreateNetworkInterfaceResponse>

See Also

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