Cancel an export image task - VM Import/Export

Cancel an export image task

After you start an image export using VM Import/Export, you can cancel the export operation if needed. If you attempt to cancel the export task after it is complete or is in the process of transferring the final disk image, the cancel operation fails and returns an error.

To describe your export image tasks, see Monitor an export image task.

AWS CLI
To cancel an export image task

Use the cancel-export-task command. If the command succeeds, no output is returned.

aws ec2 cancel-export-task \ --export-task-id export-ami-1234567890abcdef0
PowerShell
To cancel an export image task

Use the Stop-EC2ExportTask cmdlet.

Stop-EC2ExportTask ` -ExportTaskId export-ami-1234567890abcdef0