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API Reference (API Version 2016-11-15)

AWS Documentation » Amazon EC2 » API Reference » Actions » GetLaunchTemplateData

GetLaunchTemplateData

Retrieves the configuration data of the specified instance. You can use this data to create a launch template.

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 is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

InstanceId

The ID of the instance.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

launchTemplateData

The instance data.

Type: ResponseLaunchTemplateData object

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Client Errors.

Example

Example

This example gets the data for instance i-123456abcabc123ab.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=GetLaunchTemplateData
&InstanceId=i-123456abcabc123ab
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<GetLaunchTemplateDataResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
    <requestId>57372b95-c320-409e-b268-1e4example</requestId>
    <launchTemplateData>
        <blockDeviceMappingSet>
            <item>
                <deviceName>/dev/xvda</deviceName>
                <ebs>
                    <deleteOnTermination>true</deleteOnTermination>
                </ebs>
            </item>
        </blockDeviceMappingSet>
        <ebsOptimized>false</ebsOptimized>
        <iamInstanceProfile>
            <arn>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:instance-profile/AdminRole</arn>
        </iamInstanceProfile>
        <imageId>ami-1a2b3c4d</imageId>
        <instanceType>t2.micro</instanceType>
        <keyName>kp-us-east</keyName>
        <monitoring/>
        <networkInterfaceSet>
            <item>
                <description>Primary network interface</description>
                <groupSet>
                    <groupId>sg-7c227abc</groupId>
                </groupSet>
                <ipv6AddressesSet/>
                <networkInterfaceId>eni-d26c8f36</networkInterfaceId>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.197</privateIpAddress>
                <privateIpAddressesSet>
                    <item>
                        <primary>true</primary>
                        <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.197</privateIpAddress>
                    </item>
                </privateIpAddressesSet>
                <subnetId>subnet-7b16dabc</subnetId>
            </item>
            <item>
                <description>my network interface</description>
                <groupSet>
                    <groupId>sg-54e8b123</groupId>
                </groupSet>
                <ipv6AddressesSet/>
                <networkInterfaceId>eni-714bc4a5</networkInterfaceId>
                <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.190</privateIpAddress>
                <privateIpAddressesSet>
                    <item>
                        <primary>true</primary>
                        <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.190</privateIpAddress>
                    </item>
                </privateIpAddressesSet>
                <subnetId>subnet-7b16de0c</subnetId>
            </item>
        </networkInterfaceSet>
        <placement>
            <availabilityZone>us-east-1a</availabilityZone>
            <groupName/>
            <tenancy>default</tenancy>
        </placement>
    </launchTemplateData>
</GetLaunchTemplateDataResponse>

See Also

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