Request Parameters Response Elements Errors See Also

CreateSnapshots

Creates crash-consistent snapshots of multiple EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. Volumes are chosen by specifying an instance. Each volume attached to the specified instance will produce one snapshot that is crash-consistent across the instance. You can include all of the volumes currently attached to the instance, or you can exclude the root volume or specific data (non-root) volumes from the multi-volume snapshot set.

The location of the source instance determines where you can create the snapshots.

If the source instance is in a Region, you must create the snapshots in the same Region as the instance.
If the source instance is in a Local Zone, you can create the snapshots in the same Local Zone or in its parent AWS Region.
If the source instance is on an Outpost, you can create the snapshots on the same Outpost or in its parent AWS Region.

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.

CopyTagsFromSource

Copies the tags from the specified volume to corresponding snapshot.

Type: String

Valid Values: volume

Required: No

Description

A description propagated to every snapshot specified by the instance.

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

InstanceSpecification

The instance to specify which volumes should be included in the snapshots.

Type: InstanceSpecification object

Required: Yes

Location

Note

Only supported for instances in Local Zones. If the source instance is not in a Local Zone, omit this parameter.

To create local snapshots in the same Local Zone as the source instance, specify local.
To create regional snapshots in the parent Region of the Local Zone, specify regional or omit this parameter.

Default value: regional

Type: String

Valid Values: regional | local

Required: No

OutpostArn

Note

Only supported for instances on Outposts. If the source instance is not on an Outpost, omit this parameter.

To create the snapshots on the same Outpost as the source instance, specify the ARN of that Outpost. The snapshots must be created on the same Outpost as the instance.
To create the snapshots in the parent Region of the Outpost, omit this parameter.

For more information, see Create local snapshots from volumes on an Outpost in the Amazon EBS User Guide.

Type: String

Required: No

TagSpecification.N

Tags to apply to every snapshot specified by the instance.

Type: Array of TagSpecification objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

snapshotSet

List of snapshots.

Type: Array of SnapshotInfo objects

Errors

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