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RebootInstances

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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RebootInstances

Description

Requests a reboot of one or more instances. This operation is asynchronous; it only queues a request to reboot the specified instance(s). The operation will succeed if the instances are valid and belong to you. Requests to reboot terminated instances are ignored.

[Note]Note

If a Linux/UNIX instance does not cleanly shut down within four minutes, Amazon EC2 will perform a hard reboot.

Request Parameters

NameDescriptionRequired

InstanceId.n

One or more instance IDs.

Type: String

Default: None

Yes

Response Elements

NameDescription

RebootInstancesResponseType

RebootInstancesResponseType element.

Type:

RebootInstancesResponseType

Ancestor: None

Children: requestId, return

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: xsd:string

Ancestor: RebootInstancesResponseType

Children: None

return

Returns true if successful. Otherwise, returns an error.

Type: xsd:boolean

Ancestor: RebootInstancesResponseType

Children: None

Examples

Example Request

This example reboots an instance.

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=RebootInstances&AuthParams

Example Response

<RebootInstancesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <return>true</return>
</RebootInstancesResponse>
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