/#Action=ImportVolume
http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=ImportVolume<p>Creates an import volume task using metadata from the specified disk image.</p> <p>This API action supports only single-volume VMs. To import multi-volume VMs, use <a>ImportImage</a> instead. To import a disk to a snapshot, use <a>ImportSnapshot</a> instead.</p> <p>This API action is not supported by the Command Line Interface (CLI). For information about using the Amazon EC2 CLI, which is deprecated, see <a href="https://awsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com/EC2/ec2-clt.pdf#importing-your-volumes-into-amazon-ebs">Importing Disks to Amazon EBS</a> in the <i>Amazon EC2 CLI Reference</i> PDF file.</p> <p>For information about the import manifest referenced by this API action, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/manifest.html">VM Import Manifest</a>.</p>
Query Params
The Availability Zone for the resulting EBS volume.
A description of the volume.
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 <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.
The disk image.
The volume size.
Responses
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request GET \2 --url 'http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=ImportVolume' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}