CreateInternetGateway - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Request ParametersResponse ElementsErrorsExamplesSee Also

CreateInternetGateway

Creates an internet gateway for use with a VPC. After creating the internet gateway, you attach it to a VPC using AttachInternetGateway.

For more information, see Internet gateways in the Amazon VPC 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

TagSpecification.N

The tags to assign to the internet gateway.

Type: Array of TagSpecification objects

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

internetGateway

Information about the internet gateway.

Type: InternetGateway object

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 creates an internet gateway.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=CreateInternetGateway
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<CreateInternetGatewayResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
   <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId> 
   <internetGateway>
      <internetGatewayId>igw-eaad4883</internetGatewayId>
      <attachmentSet/>
      <tagSet/>
   </internetGateway>
</CreateInternetGatewayResponse>

See Also

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