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How to Describe Snapshots

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-10-31

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How to Describe Snapshots

This section describes how to view snapshots that you created.

[Note] Note

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

How To

To describe snapshots

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

    <DescribeSnapshots xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <snapshotId>snapshot-id</snapshotId>
</DescribeSnapshots>

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

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

  3. View output similar to the following: 

    <DescribeSnapshotsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2009-10-31/">
  <snapshotSet>
    <item>
      <snapshotId>snap-78a54011</snapshotId>
      <volumeId>vol-4d826724</volumeId>
      <status>pending</status>
      <startTime>2008-05-07T12:51:50.000Z</startTime>
      <progress>80%</progress>
    </item>
  </snapshotSet>
</DescribeSnapshotsResponse>
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