POST /#Action=DescribeSnapshots

Describes the specified EBS snapshots available to you or all of the EBS snapshots available to you.

The snapshots available to you include public snapshots, private snapshots that you own, and private snapshots owned by other Amazon Web Services accounts for which you have explicit create volume permissions.

The create volume permissions fall into the following categories:

public: The owner of the snapshot granted create volume permissions for the snapshot to the all group. All Amazon Web Services accounts have create volume permissions for these snapshots.
explicit: The owner of the snapshot granted create volume permissions to a specific Amazon Web Services account.
implicit: An Amazon Web Services account has implicit create volume permissions for all snapshots it owns.

The list of snapshots returned can be filtered by specifying snapshot IDs, snapshot owners, or Amazon Web Services accounts with create volume permissions. If no options are specified, Amazon EC2 returns all snapshots for which you have create volume permissions.

If you specify one or more snapshot IDs, only snapshots that have the specified IDs are returned. If you specify an invalid snapshot ID, an error is returned. If you specify a snapshot ID for which you do not have access, it is not included in the returned results.

If you specify one or more snapshot owners using the OwnerIds option, only snapshots from the specified owners and for which you have access are returned. The results can include the Amazon Web Services account IDs of the specified owners, amazon for snapshots owned by Amazon, or self for snapshots that you own.

If you specify a list of restorable users, only snapshots with create snapshot permissions for those users are returned. You can specify Amazon Web Services account IDs (if you own the snapshots), self for snapshots for which you own or have explicit permissions, or all for public snapshots.

If you are describing a long list of snapshots, we recommend that you paginate the output to make the list more manageable. For more information, see Pagination.

To get the state of fast snapshot restores for a snapshot, use DescribeFastSnapshotRestores.

For more information about EBS snapshots, see Amazon EBS snapshots in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Servers

https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com
https://ec2.amazonaws.com
https://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn

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: `"DescribeSnapshots"`

Request body fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`OwnerIds[]`	Array	No	Scopes the results to snapshots with the specified owners. You can specify a combination of Amazon Web Services account IDs, `self`, and `amazon`.
`MaxResults`	Integer	No	The maximum number of snapshots to return for this request. This value can be between 5 and 1,000; if this value is larger than 1,000, only 1,000 results are returned. If this parameter is not used, then the request returns all snapshots. You cannot specify this parameter and the snapshot IDs parameter in the same request. For more information, see Pagination.
`SnapshotIds[]`	Array	No	The snapshot IDs. Default: Describes the snapshots for which you have create volume permissions.
`Filters[]`	Array	No	The filters. `description` - A description of the snapshot. `encrypted` - Indicates whether the snapshot is encrypted (`true` \| `false`) `owner-alias` - The owner alias, from an Amazon-maintained list (`amazon`). This is not the user-configured Amazon Web Services account alias set using the IAM console. We recommend that you use the related parameter instead of this filter. `owner-id` - The Amazon Web Services account ID of the owner. We recommend that you use the related parameter instead of this filter. `progress` - The progress of the snapshot, as a percentage (for example, 80%). `snapshot-id` - The snapshot ID. `start-time` - The time stamp when the snapshot was initiated. `status` - The status of the snapshot (`pending` \| `completed` \| `error`). `storage-tier` - The storage tier of the snapshot (`archive` \| `standard`). `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. `volume-id` - The ID of the volume the snapshot is for. `volume-size` - The size of the volume, in GiB.
`NextToken`	String	No	The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.
`RestorableByUserIds[]`	Array	No	The IDs of the Amazon Web Services accounts that can create volumes from the snapshot.
`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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