InstanceSpecification - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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InstanceSpecification

The instance details to specify which volumes should be snapshotted.

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InstanceId

The instance to specify which volumes should be snapshotted.

Type: String

Required: Yes

ExcludeBootVolume

Excludes the root volume from being snapshotted.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

ExcludeDataVolumeIds

The IDs of the data (non-root) volumes to exclude from the multi-volume snapshot set. If you specify the ID of the root volume, the request fails. To exclude the root volume, use ExcludeBootVolume.

You can specify up to 40 volume IDs per request.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: