Amazon EC2 provides two APIs: SOAP and Query.

This section discusses the operations available in the Amazon EC2 APIs, their semantics, and their required parameters. Examples of requests and responses are also provided.

	Note
	The same XML body is returned in both the Query API and SOAP API.

Before using the API, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with their ???.

	Note
	For detailed information about Amazon EC2 features and their associated APIs, refer to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Developer Guide.