The create volume permissions fall into the following categories:
public: The owner of the snapshot granted create volume permissions for the snapshot to the all
group. All AWS accounts have create volume permissions for these snapshots.
explicit: The owner of the snapshot granted create volume permissions to a specific AWS account.
implicit: An AWS account has implicit create volume permissions for all snapshots it owns.
The list of snapshots returned can be modified by specifying snapshot IDs, snapshot owners, or AWS accounts with create volume permissions. If no options are specified, Amazon EC2 returns all snapshots for which you have create volume permissions.
If you specify one or more snapshot IDs, only snapshots that have the specified IDs are returned. If you specify an invalid snapshot ID, an error is returned. If you specify a snapshot ID for which you do not have access, it is not included in the returned results.
If you specify one or more snapshot owners using the OwnerIds
option, only snapshots from the specified owners and for which you have access are returned. The results can include the AWS account IDs of the specified owners, amazon
for snapshots owned by Amazon, or self
for snapshots that you own.
If you specify a list of restorable users, only snapshots with create snapshot permissions for those users are returned. You can specify AWS account IDs (if you own the snapshots), self
for snapshots for which you own or have explicit permissions, or all
for public snapshots.
If you are describing a long list of snapshots, you can paginate the output to make the list more manageable. The MaxResults
parameter sets the maximum number of results returned in a single page. If the list of results exceeds your MaxResults
value, then that number of results is returned along with a NextToken
value that can be passed to a subsequent DescribeSnapshots
request to retrieve the remaining results.
For more information about EBS snapshots, see Amazon EBS Snapshots in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.