AmazonEC2Client.DescribeSnapshotAttribute Method (DescribeSnapshotAttributeRequest)

Describes the specified attribute of the specified snapshot. You can specify only one attribute at a time.

For more information about EBS snapshots, see Amazon EBS snapshots in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to DescribeSnapshotAttributeAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.EC2
Assembly: AWSSDK.EC2.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

public virtual DescribeSnapshotAttributeResponse DescribeSnapshotAttribute(
         DescribeSnapshotAttributeRequest request
)

Parameters

request: Type: Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeSnapshotAttributeRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DescribeSnapshotAttribute service method.

Return Value

Type: DescribeSnapshotAttributeResponse

The response from the DescribeSnapshotAttribute service method, as returned by EC2.

Examples

This example describes the ``createVolumePermission`` attribute on a snapshot with the snapshot ID of ``snap-066877671789bd71b``.

To describe snapshot attributes


var client = new AmazonEC2Client();
var response = client.DescribeSnapshotAttribute(new DescribeSnapshotAttributeRequest 
{
    Attribute = "createVolumePermission",
    SnapshotId = "snap-066877671789bd71b"
});

List<CreateVolumePermission> createVolumePermissions = response.CreateVolumePermissions;
string snapshotId = response.SnapshotId;

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5

AmazonEC2Client.DescribeSnapshotAttribute (DescribeSnapshotAttributeRequest)