DescribeInternetGateways
Describes your internet gateways. The default is to describe all your internet gateways. Alternatively, you can specify specific internet gateway IDs or filter the results to include only the internet gateways that match specific criteria.
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.
- 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 isUnauthorizedOperation
.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- Filter.N
-
The filters.
-
attachment.state
- The current state of the attachment between the gateway and the VPC (available
). Present only if a VPC is attached. -
attachment.vpc-id
- The ID of an attached VPC. -
internet-gateway-id
- The ID of the Internet gateway. -
owner-id
- The ID of the AWS account that owns the internet gateway. -
tag
:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the keyOwner
and the valueTeamA
, specifytag:Owner
for the filter name andTeamA
for the filter value. -
tag-key
- The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.
Type: Array of Filter objects
Required: No
-
- InternetGatewayId.N
-
The IDs of the internet gateways.
Default: Describes all your internet gateways.
Type: Array of strings
Required: No
- MaxResults
-
The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. For more information, see Pagination.
Type: Integer
Valid Range: Minimum value of 5. Maximum value of 1000.
Required: No
- NextToken
-
The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.
Type: String
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- internetGatewaySet
-
Information about the internet gateways.
Type: Array of InternetGateway objects
- nextToken
-
The token to include in another request to get the next page of items. This value is
null
when there are no more items to return.Type: String
- 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
This example describes all your internet gateways.
Sample Request
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeInternetGateways
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<DescribeInternetGatewaysResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
<requestId>e0fbdd4f-8e6d-437c-92eb-bc72864831d8</requestId>
<internetGatewaySet>
<item>
<internetGatewayId>igw-036dde5c85EXAMPLE</internetGatewayId>
<ownerId>11112222333304</ownerId>
<attachmentSet/>
<tagSet/>
</item>
<item>
<internetGatewayId>igw-0EXAMPLE</internetGatewayId>
<ownerId>053534965804</ownerId>
<attachmentSet>
<item>
<vpcId>vpc-cEXAMPLE</vpcId>
<state>available</state>
</item>
</attachmentSet>
<tagSet/>
</item>
</internetGatewaySet>
</DescribeInternetGatewaysResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: