POST /#Action=DescribeClassicLinkInstances

Describes one or more of your linked EC2-Classic instances. This request only returns information about EC2-Classic instances linked to a VPC through ClassicLink. You cannot use this request to return information about other instances.

We are retiring EC2-Classic. We recommend that you migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC. For more information, see Migrate from EC2-Classic to a VPC in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

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Request headers

Name Type Required Description
X-Amz-Content-Sha256 String No
X-Amz-Credential String No
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "text/xml"

X-Amz-Date String No
X-Amz-Algorithm String No
X-Amz-SignedHeaders String No
X-Amz-Security-Token String No
X-Amz-Signature String No

Query parameters

Name Type Required Description
Version String Yes

Possible values:

  • "2016-11-15"
MaxResults String No

Pagination limit

NextToken String No

Pagination token

Action String Yes

Possible values:

  • "DescribeClassicLinkInstances"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
MaxResults Integer No

The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. For more information, see Pagination.

Constraint: If the value is greater than 1000, we return only 1000 items.

InstanceIds[] Array No

One or more instance IDs. Must be instances linked to a VPC through ClassicLink.

Filters[] Array No

One or more filters.

  • group-id - The ID of a VPC security group that's associated with the instance.

  • instance-id - The ID of the instance.

  • tag:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.

  • vpc-id - The ID of the VPC to which the instance is linked.

    vpc-id - The ID of the VPC that the instance is linked to.

NextToken String No

The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.

DryRun Boolean No

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

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