describe-export-tasks¶

Description¶

Describes the specified export instance tasks or all of your export instance tasks.

Synopsis¶

  describe-export-tasks
[--export-task-ids <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--export-task-ids (list)

The export task IDs.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--filters (list)

the filters for the export tasks.

(structure)

A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs.

If you specify multiple filters, the filters are joined with an AND , and the request returns only results that match all of the specified filters.

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Values -> (list)

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR , and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To list details about an instance export task

This example describes the export task with ID export-i-fh8sjjsq.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-export-tasks --export-task-ids export-i-fh8sjjsq

Output:

{
    "ExportTasks": [
        {
            "State": "active",
            "InstanceExportDetails": {
                "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
                "TargetEnvironment": "vmware"
            },
            "ExportToS3Task": {
                "S3Bucket": "myexportbucket",
                "S3Key": "RHEL5export-i-fh8sjjsq.ova",
                "DiskImageFormat": "vmdk",
                "ContainerFormat": "ova"
            },
            "Description": "RHEL5 instance",
            "ExportTaskId": "export-i-fh8sjjsq"
        }
    ]
}

Output¶

ExportTasks -> (list)

Information about the export tasks.

(structure)

Describes an export instance task.

Description -> (string)

A description of the resource being exported.

ExportTaskId -> (string)

The ID of the export task.

ExportToS3Task -> (structure)

Information about the export task.

ContainerFormat -> (string)

The container format used to combine disk images with metadata (such as OVF). If absent, only the disk image is exported.

DiskImageFormat -> (string)

The format for the exported image.

S3Bucket -> (string)

The Amazon S3 bucket for the destination image. The destination bucket must exist and have an access control list (ACL) attached that specifies the Region-specific canonical account ID for the Grantee . For more information about the ACL to your S3 bucket, see Prerequisites in the VM Import/Export User Guide.

S3Key -> (string)

The encryption key for your S3 bucket.

InstanceExportDetails -> (structure)

Information about the instance to export.

InstanceId -> (string)

The ID of the resource being exported.

TargetEnvironment -> (string)

The target virtualization environment.

State -> (string)

The state of the export task.

StatusMessage -> (string)

The status message related to the export task.

Tags -> (list)

The tags for the export task.

(structure)

Describes a tag.

Key -> (string)

The key of the tag.

Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .

Value -> (string)

The value of the tag.

Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.

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