POST

/#Action=EnableEbsEncryptionByDefault

http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=EnableEbsEncryptionByDefault

Enables EBS encryption by default for your account in the current Region. After you enable encryption by default, the EBS volumes that you create are always encrypted, either using the default KMS key or the KMS key that you specified when you created each volume. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html">Amazon EBS encryption</a> in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide. You can specify the default KMS key for encryption by default using <a>ModifyEbsDefaultKmsKeyId</a> or <a>ResetEbsDefaultKmsKeyId</a>. Enabling encryption by default has no effect on the encryption status of your existing volumes. After you enable encryption by default, you can no longer launch instances using instance types that do not support encryption. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSEncryption.html#EBSEncryption_supported_instances">Supported instance types</a>.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

Allowed:

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://ec2.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=EnableEbsEncryptionByDefault' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}