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ReplaceImageCriteriaInAllowedImagesSettings - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

ReplaceImageCriteriaInAllowedImagesSettings

Sets or replaces the criteria for Allowed AMIs.

Note

The Allowed AMIs feature does not restrict the AMIs owned by your account. Regardless of the criteria you set, the AMIs created by your account will always be discoverable and usable by users in your account.

For more information, see Control the discovery and use of AMIs in Amazon EC2 with Allowed AMIs in 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.

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

ImageCriterion.N

The list of criteria that are evaluated to determine whether AMIs are discoverable and usable in the account in the specified AWS Region.

Type: Array of ImageCriterionRequest objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

return

Returns true if the request succeeds; otherwise, it returns an error.

Type: Boolean

Errors

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

See Also

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

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