How to Describe Snapshots

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-08-15

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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%.

AWS Management Console

To describe snapshots

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and click the Amazon EC2 tab.

  2. Click Snapshots in the Navigation pane.

    The console displays a list of all snapshots to which you have access and their status.

  3. To reduce the list, select an option from the Viewing list box. For example, to only view your snapshots, select Owned by Me.

    The console displays a new list of snapshots.

  4. To view more information about a snapshot, select it.

    Information about the snapshot appears in the lower pane.

Command Line Tools

To describe snapshots

  • Enter the following command.

    PROMPT>  ec2-describe-snapshots snap-78a54011

    Amazon EBS returns information about the snapshot.

    SNAPSHOT snap-78a54011 vol-4d826724 pending 2008-02-15T09:03:58+0000   60%
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