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DescribeVirtualGateways - AWS Direct Connect

DescribeVirtualGateways

Note

Deprecated. Use DescribeVpnGateways instead. See DescribeVPNGateways in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API Reference.

Lists the virtual private gateways owned by the AWS account.

You can create one or more AWS Direct Connect private virtual interfaces linked to a virtual private gateway.

Response Syntax

{ "virtualGateways": [ { "virtualGatewayId": "string", "virtualGatewayState": "string" } ] }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

virtualGateways

The virtual private gateways.

Type: Array of VirtualGateway objects

Errors

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

DirectConnectClientException

One or more parameters are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DirectConnectServerException

A server-side error occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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

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