GetImageAncestry
Retrieves the ancestry chain of the specified AMI, tracing its lineage back to the root AMI. For more information, see AMI ancestry in Amazon EC2 User Guide.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- DryRun
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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
DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- ImageId
-
The ID of the AMI whose ancestry you want to trace.
Type: String
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- imageAncestryEntrySet
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A list of entries in the AMI ancestry chain, from the specified AMI to the root AMI.
Type: Array of ImageAncestryEntry objects
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
