# IdentificationHints
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Hints used to uniquely identify a machine.

## Contents
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 ** awsInstanceID **   <a name="drs-Type-IdentificationHints-awsInstanceID"></a>
AWS Instance ID identification hint.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `i-[0-9a-fA-F]{8,}`   
Required: No

 ** fqdn **   <a name="drs-Type-IdentificationHints-fqdn"></a>
Fully Qualified Domain Name identification hint.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.  
Required: No

 ** hostname **   <a name="drs-Type-IdentificationHints-hostname"></a>
Hostname identification hint.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.  
Required: No

 ** vmWareUuid **   <a name="drs-Type-IdentificationHints-vmWareUuid"></a>
vCenter VM path identification hint.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/drs-2020-02-26/IdentificationHints) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/drs-2020-02-26/IdentificationHints) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/drs-2020-02-26/IdentificationHints) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query drs` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).