Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors See Also

ExportSnapshot

Exports an Amazon Lightsail instance or block storage disk snapshot to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This operation results in an export snapshot record that can be used with the create cloud formation stack operation to create new Amazon EC2 instances.

Exported instance snapshots appear in Amazon EC2 as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and the instance system disk appears as an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume. Exported disk snapshots appear in Amazon EC2 as Amazon EBS volumes. Snapshots are exported to the same Amazon Web Services Region in Amazon EC2 as the source Lightsail snapshot.

The export snapshot operation supports tag-based access control via resource tags applied to the resource identified by source snapshot name. For more information, see the Amazon Lightsail Developer Guide.

Note

Use the get instance snapshots or get disk snapshots operations to get a list of snapshots that you can export to Amazon EC2.

Request Syntax


{
   "sourceSnapshotName": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

sourceSnapshotName

The name of the instance or disk snapshot to be exported to Amazon EC2.

Type: String

Pattern: \w[\w\-]*\w

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "operations": [ 
      { 
         "createdAt": number,
         "errorCode": "string",
         "errorDetails": "string",
         "id": "string",
         "isTerminal": boolean,
         "location": { 
            "availabilityZone": "string",
            "regionName": "string"
         },
         "operationDetails": "string",
         "operationType": "string",
         "resourceName": "string",
         "resourceType": "string",
         "status": "string",
         "statusChangedAt": number
      }
   ]
}

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.

operations

An array of objects that describe the result of the action, such as the status of the request, the timestamp of the request, and the resources affected by the request.

Type: Array of Operation objects

Errors

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

AccessDeniedException

Lightsail throws this exception when the user cannot be authenticated or uses invalid credentials to access a resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

AccountSetupInProgressException

Lightsail throws this exception when an account is still in the setup in progress state.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidInputException

Lightsail throws this exception when user input does not conform to the validation rules of an input field.

Note

Domain and distribution APIs are only available in the N. Virginia (us-east-1) AWS Region. Please set your AWS Region configuration to us-east-1 to create, view, or edit these resources.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFoundException

Lightsail throws this exception when it cannot find a resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationFailureException

Lightsail throws this exception when an operation fails to execute.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

A general service exception.

HTTP Status Code: 500

UnauthenticatedException

Lightsail throws this exception when the user has not been authenticated.

HTTP Status Code: 400