[ aws . iot ]

describe-endpoint

Description

Returns a unique endpoint specific to the Amazon Web Services account making the call.

Requires permission to access the DescribeEndpoint action.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  describe-endpoint
[--endpoint-type <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--endpoint-type (string)

The endpoint type. Valid endpoint types include:

• iot:Data - Returns a VeriSign signed data endpoint.

• iot:Data-ATS - Returns an ATS signed data endpoint.

• iot:CredentialProvider - Returns an IoT credentials provider API endpoint.

• iot:Jobs - Returns an IoT device management Jobs API endpoint.

We strongly recommend that customers use the newer iot:Data-ATS endpoint type to avoid issues related to the widespread distrust of Symantec certificate authorities.

--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 .

Example 1: To get your current AWS endpoint

The following describe-endpoint example retrieves the default AWS endpoint to which all commands are applied.

aws iot describe-endpoint

Output:

{
    "endpointAddress": "abc123defghijk.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
}

For more information, see DescribeEndpoint in the AWS IoT Developer Guide.

Example 2: To get your ATS endpoint

The following describe-endpoint example retrieves the Amazon Trust Services (ATS) endpoint.

aws iot describe-endpoint \
    --endpoint-type iot:Data-ATS

Output:

{
    "endpointAddress": "abc123defghijk-ats.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
}

For more information, see X.509 Certificates and AWS IoT in the AWS IoT Developer Guide.

Output

endpointAddress -> (string)

The endpoint. The format of the endpoint is as follows: identifier .iot.*region* .amazonaws.com.