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Ec2AmiResource

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Ec2AmiResource - AWS Snowball Edge
Important

End of support notice: On November 12, 2024, AWS will discontinue previous generation AWS Snowball devices, and both Snowcone devices (HDD and SDD). We will continue to support existing customers using these end-of-life devices until November 12, 2025. The latest generation AWS Snowball devices are available for all customers. For more information, visit this blog post.

A JSON-formatted object that contains the IDs for an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), including the Amazon EC2-compatible AMI ID and the Snow device AMI ID. Each AMI has these two IDs to simplify identifying the AMI in both the AWS Cloud and on the device.

Contents

AmiId

The ID of the AMI in Amazon EC2.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 12. Maximum length of 21.

Pattern: (ami-[0-9a-f]{8})|(ami-[0-9a-f]{17})

Required: Yes

SnowballAmiId

The ID of the AMI on the Snow device.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: .*

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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