AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell
Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon EBS StartSnapshot API operation.

Syntax

Start-EBSSnapshot
-VolumeSize <Int64>
-Description <String>
-Encrypted <Boolean>
-KmsKeyArn <String>
-ParentSnapshotId <String>
-Tag <Tag[]>
-Timeout <Int32>
-ClientToken <String>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>

Description

Creates a new Amazon EBS snapshot. The new snapshot enters the pending state after the request completes. After creating the snapshot, use PutSnapshotBlock to write blocks of data to the snapshot.

Parameters

-ClientToken <String>
A unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. Idempotency ensures that an API request completes only once. With an idempotent request, if the original request completes successfully. The subsequent retries with the same client token return the result from the original successful request and they have no additional effect.If you do not specify a client token, one is automatically generated by the Amazon Web Services SDK.For more information, see Idempotency for StartSnapshot API in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Description <String>
A description for the snapshot.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Encrypted <Boolean>
Indicates whether to encrypt the snapshot. To create an encrypted snapshot, specify true. To create an unencrypted snapshot, omit this parameter.If you specify a value for ParentSnapshotId, omit this parameter.If you specify true, the snapshot is encrypted using the KMS key specified using the KmsKeyArn parameter. If no value is specified for KmsKeyArn, the default KMS key for your account is used. If no default KMS key has been specified for your account, the Amazon Web Services managed KMS key is used. To set a default KMS key for your account, use ModifyEbsDefaultKmsKeyId.If your account is enabled for encryption by default, you cannot set this parameter to false. In this case, you can omit this parameter.For more information, see Using encryption in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
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)
-KmsKeyArn <String>
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Key Management Service (KMS) key to be used to encrypt the snapshot. If you do not specify a KMS key, the default Amazon Web Services managed KMS key is used.If you specify a ParentSnapshotId, omit this parameter; the snapshot will be encrypted using the same KMS key that was used to encrypt the parent snapshot.If Encrypted is set to true, you must specify a KMS key ARN.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ParentSnapshotId <String>
The ID of the parent snapshot. If there is no parent snapshot, or if you are creating the first snapshot for an on-premises volume, omit this parameter.If your account is enabled for encryption by default, you cannot use an unencrypted snapshot as a parent snapshot. You must first create an encrypted copy of the parent snapshot using CopySnapshot.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the VolumeSize parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^VolumeSize' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is '*'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.EBS.Model.StartSnapshotResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.EBS.Model.StartSnapshotResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Tag <Tag[]>
The tags to apply to the snapshot.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTags
-Timeout <Int32>
The amount of time (in minutes) after which the snapshot is automatically cancelled if:
  • No blocks are written to the snapshot.
  • The snapshot is not completed after writing the last block of data.
If no value is specified, the timeout defaults to 60 minutes.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-VolumeSize <Int64>
The size of the volume, in GiB. The maximum size is 65536 GiB (64 TiB).
Required?True
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, 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

Amazon.EBS.Model.StartSnapshotResponse
This cmdlet returns an Amazon.EBS.Model.StartSnapshotResponse object containing multiple properties. The object can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.
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Supported Version

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