Archives an Amazon EBS snapshot. When you archive a snapshot, it is converted to a full snapshot that includes all of the blocks of data that were written to the volume at the time the snapshot was created, and moved from the standard tier to the archive tier. For more information, see Archive Amazon EBS snapshots in the Amazon EBS 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
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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 isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- SnapshotId
-
The ID of the snapshot.
Type: String
Required: Yes
- StorageTier
-
The name of the storage tier. You must specify
archive.Type: String
Valid Values:
archiveRequired: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- requestId
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The ID of the request.
Type: String
- snapshotId
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The ID of the snapshot.
Type: String
- tieringStartTime
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The date and time when the archive process was started.
Type: Timestamp
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
