Copies a point-in-time snapshot of an Amazon EBS volume and stores it in Amazon S3. You can copy the snapshot within the same region or from one region to another. You can use the snapshot to create Amazon EBS volumes or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The snapshot is copied to the regional endpoint that you send the HTTP request to.
Copies of encrypted Amazon EBS snapshots remain encrypted. Copies of unencrypted snapshots remain unencrypted.
For more information, see Copying an Amazon EBS Snapshot in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .
Declaration Syntax| C# |
public CopySnapshotResponse CopySnapshot( CopySnapshotRequest request )
Parameters- request (CopySnapshotRequest)
- Copy Snapshot request
Return ValueCopy Snapshot response from the service
Exceptions| Exception | Condition |
|---|---|
| WebException | |
| AmazonEC2Exception |