How to Modify Snapshot Permissions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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How to Modify Snapshot Permissions

This section describes how to modify permissions for snapshots that you created.

[Note] Note

When the snapshot is complete, its status will change to completed and the percentage will change to 100%.

Procedure

To describe snapshots

  1. If you are using SOAP, construct the following request:

    <DescribeSnapshotAttribute xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
    <snapshotId>snapshot-id</snapshotId>
</DescribeSnapshotAttribute>

  2. If you are using Query, construct the following request:

    https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=DescribeSnapshotAttribute
&SnapshotId=snapshot-id
&...auth parameters...

  3. View output similar to the following: 

    <DescribeSnapshotAttributeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <snapshotId>snap-78a54011</snapshotId>
  <createVolumePermission/>
</DescribeSnapshotAttributeResponse>

  4. If you are using SOAP, construct the following request to make the snapshot public:

    <ModifySnapshotAttribute xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
    <snapshotId>snapshot-id</snapshotId>
    <createVolumePermission>
      <add>
        <item>
          <group>all</group>
        </item>
      </add>
    </createVolumePermission>
</ModifySnapshotAttribute>

  5. If you are using Query, construct the following request to make the snapshot public:

    https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
?Action=ModifySnapshotAttribute
&SnapshotId.1=snapshot-id
&Add.1=all
&...auth parameters...

  6. View output similar to the following: 

    <ModifySnapshotAttributeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-08-15/">
  <return>true</return>
</ModifySnapshotAttributeResponse>
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