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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) ModifyImageAttribute API operation.

Syntax

Edit-EC2ImageAttribute
-ImageId <String>
-LaunchPermission_Add <LaunchPermission[]>
-Attribute <String>
-Description <String>
-OperationType <OperationType>
-OrganizationalUnitArn <String[]>
-OrganizationArn <String[]>
-ProductCode <String[]>
-LaunchPermission_Remove <LaunchPermission[]>
-UserGroup <String[]>
-UserId <String[]>
-Value <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>

Description

Modifies the specified attribute of the specified AMI. You can specify only one attribute at a time. You can use the Attribute parameter to specify the attribute or one of the following parameters: Description or LaunchPermission. Images with an Amazon Web Services Marketplace product code cannot be made public. To enable the SriovNetSupport enhanced networking attribute of an image, enable SriovNetSupport on an instance and create an AMI from the instance.

Parameters

-Attribute <String>
The name of the attribute to modify.Valid values: description | launchPermission
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Description <String>
A new description for the AMI.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ImageId <String>
The ID of the AMI.
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-LaunchPermission_Add <LaunchPermission[]>
The Amazon Web Services account ID, organization ARN, or OU ARN to add to the list of launch permissions for the AMI.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-LaunchPermission_Remove <LaunchPermission[]>
The Amazon Web Services account ID, organization ARN, or OU ARN to remove from the list of launch permissions for the AMI.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-OperationType <OperationType>
The operation type. This parameter can be used only when the Attribute parameter is launchPermission.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-OrganizationalUnitArn <String[]>
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an organizational unit (OU). This parameter can be used only when the Attribute parameter is launchPermission.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesOrganizationalUnitArns
-OrganizationArn <String[]>
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an organization. This parameter can be used only when the Attribute parameter is launchPermission.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesOrganizationArns
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the ImageId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^ImageId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ProductCode <String[]>
Not supported.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesProductCodes
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The cmdlet doesn't have a return value by default. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.EC2.Model.ModifyImageAttributeResponse). Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-UserGroup <String[]>
The user groups. This parameter can be used only when the Attribute parameter is launchPermission.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesUserGroups
-UserId <String[]>
The Amazon Web Services account IDs. This parameter can be used only when the Attribute parameter is launchPermission.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesUserIds
-Value <String>
The value of the attribute being modified. This parameter can be used only when the Attribute parameter is description.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

None or Amazon.EC2.Model.ModifyImageAttributeResponse
This cmdlet does not generate any output.The service response (type Amazon.EC2.Model.ModifyImageAttributeResponse) can be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.

Examples

Example 1

Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-12345678 -Description "New description"
This example updates the description for the specified AMI.

Example 2

Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-12345678 -Attribute launchPermission -OperationType add -UserGroup all
This example makes the AMI public (for example, so any AWS account can use it).

Example 3

Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-12345678 -Attribute launchPermission -OperationType remove -UserGroup all
This example makes the AMI private (for example, so that only you as the owner can use it).

Example 4

Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-12345678 -Attribute launchPermission -OperationType add -UserId 111122223333
This example grants launch permission to the specified AWS account.

Example 5

Edit-EC2ImageAttribute -ImageId ami-12345678 -Attribute launchPermission -OperationType remove -UserId 111122223333
This example removes launch permission from the specified AWS account.
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Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z