Cancel an instance export task - VM Import/Export

Cancel an instance export task

After you start an instance export task using VM Import/Export, you can cancel the export operation if needed. The cancel operation removes all artifacts of the export, including any partially created Amazon S3 objects. If the export task is complete or is in the process of transferring the final disk image, the cancel operation fails and returns an error.

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

AWS CLI
To cancel an instance export task

Use the cancel-export-task command.

aws ec2 cancel-export-task \ --export-task-id export-i-1234567890abcdef0
PowerShell
To cancel an instance export task

Use the Stop-EC2ExportTask cmdlet.

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