describe-volumes
Description
Describes an instance’s Amazon EBS volumes.
Note
Required Permissions : To use this action, an IAM user must have a Show, Deploy, or Manage permissions level for the stack, or an attached policy that explicitly grants permissions. For more information about user permissions, see Managing User Permissions .
See also: AWS API Documentation
Synopsis
describe-volumes
[--instance-id <value>]
[--stack-id <value>]
[--raid-array-id <value>]
[--volume-ids <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]
Options
--instance-id (string)
DescribeVolumes returns descriptions of the volumes associated with the specified instance.--stack-id (string)
--raid-array-id (string)
DescribeVolumes returns descriptions of the volumes associated with the specified RAID array.--volume-ids (list)
Am array of volume IDs. If you use this parameter, DescribeVolumes returns descriptions of the specified volumes. Otherwise, it returns a description of every volume.
(string)
Syntax:
"string" "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.
Global Options
--debug (boolean)
Turn on debug logging.
--endpoint-url (string)
Override command’s default URL with the given URL.
--no-verify-ssl (boolean)
By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.
--no-paginate (boolean)
Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.
--output (string)
The formatting style for command output.
- json
- text
- table
- yaml
- yaml-stream
--query (string)
A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.
--profile (string)
Use a specific profile from your credential file.
--region (string)
The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.
--version (string)
Display the version of this tool.
--color (string)
Turn on/off color output.
- on
- off
- auto
--no-sign-request (boolean)
Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.
--ca-bundle (string)
The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.
--cli-read-timeout (int)
The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-connect-timeout (int)
The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.
--cli-binary-format (string)
The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.
- base64
- raw-in-base64-out
--no-cli-pager (boolean)
Disable cli pager for output.
--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.
--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)
Disable automatically prompt for CLI input 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 describe a stack’s volumes
The following example describes a stack’s EBS volumes.
aws opsworks --region us-east-1 describe-volumes --stack-id 8c428b08-a1a1-46ce-a5f8-feddc43771b8
Output:
{
"Volumes": [
{
"Status": "in-use",
"AvailabilityZone": "us-west-2a",
"Name": "CLITest",
"InstanceId": "dfe18b02-5327-493d-91a4-c5c0c448927f",
"VolumeType": "standard",
"VolumeId": "56b66fbd-e1a1-4aff-9227-70f77118d4c5",
"Device": "/dev/sdi",
"Ec2VolumeId": "vol-295c1638",
"MountPoint": "/mnt/myvolume",
"Size": 1
}
]
}
More Information
For more information, see Resource Management in the AWS OpsWorks User Guide.
Output
Volumes -> (list)
An array of volume IDs.
(structure)
Describes an instance’s Amazon EBS volume.
VolumeId -> (string)
Ec2VolumeId -> (string)
Name -> (string)
RaidArrayId -> (string)
InstanceId -> (string)
Status -> (string)
Size -> (integer)
Device -> (string)
MountPoint -> (string)
Region -> (string)
AvailabilityZone -> (string)
VolumeType -> (string)
The volume type. For more information, see Amazon EBS Volume Types .
-
standard- Magnetic. Magnetic volumes must have a minimum size of 1 GiB and a maximum size of 1024 GiB. -
io1- Provisioned IOPS (SSD). PIOPS volumes must have a minimum size of 4 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB. -
gp2- General Purpose (SSD). General purpose volumes must have a minimum size of 1 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB. -
st1- Throughput Optimized hard disk drive (HDD). Throughput optimized HDD volumes must have a minimum size of 125 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB. -
sc1- Cold HDD. Cold HDD volumes must have a minimum size of 125 GiB and a maximum size of 16384 GiB.
Iops -> (integer)
Encrypted -> (boolean)
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