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Elastic Compute Service:DescribeImageFromFamily

Last Updated:Jan 14, 2025

Queries available custom images that are most recently created in a specific image family.

Operation description

Usage notes

If no available image exists in a specific image family, the response is empty.

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
ecs:DescribeImageFromFamilyget
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
RegionIdstringYes

The ID of the region in which to create the custom image. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-hangzhou
ImageFamilystringYes

The family name of the image that you want to use to create the instances.

You can configure image families for custom images, public images, community images, and shared images. For more information, see Overview of image families.

hangzhou-daily-update

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E
Imageobject

The image information.

CreationTimestring

The time when the image was created.

2018-01-10T01:01:10Z
Statusstring

The state of the image. Valid values:

  • UnAvailable
  • Available
  • Creating
  • CreateFailed
Available
ImageFamilystring

The name of the image family.

testImageFamily
Progressstring

The image creation progress in percentage.

100
IsCopiedboolean

Indicates whether the image is a copy of another image.

false
IsSupportIoOptimizedboolean

Indicates whether the image can be used on I/O optimized instances.

true
ImageOwnerAliasstring

The alias of the image owner. Valid values:

  • system: public images provided by Alibaba Cloud
  • self: your custom images
  • others: shared images from other Alibaba Cloud accounts
  • marketplace: Alibaba Cloud Marketplace images
self
IsSupportCloudinitboolean

Indicates whether cloud-init is supported.

true
ImageVersionstring

The image version.

2
Usagestring

Indicates whether the image has been used to create ECS instances. Valid values:

  • instance: The image was used to create one or more ECS instances.
  • none: The image was not used to create ECS instances.
none
IsSelfSharedstring

Indicates whether the custom image was shared to other Alibaba Cloud accounts.

true
Descriptionstring

The description of the volume.

testDescription
Sizeinteger

The size of the image. Unit: GiB.

80
Platformstring

The operating system.

Aliyun
ImageNamestring

The name of the image.

testImageName
OSNamestring

The display name of the operating system in Chinese.

Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.1903
ImageIdstring

The image ID.

m-bp1g7004ksh0oeuc****
OSTypestring

The type of the operating system. Valid values:

  • windows
  • linux
linux
IsSubscribedboolean

Indicates whether you have subscribed to the service terms of the image product corresponding to the image product code.

false
ProductCodestring

The product code of the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace image.

jxsc00****
Architecturestring

The architecture of the image. Valid values:

  • i386
  • x86_64
x86_64
DiskDeviceMappingsarray<object>

The mappings between the disk and the snapshot in the image.

DiskDeviceMappingobject
Typestring

The image type.

custom
ImportOSSBucketstring

The OSS bucket that contains the imported image file.

testEcsImport
SnapshotIdstring

The snapshot ID.

s-bp17ot2q7x72ggtw****
ImportOSSObjectstring

The OSS object to which the imported image belongs.

imageImport
Sizestring

The size of the disk. Unit: GiB.

80
Devicestring

The device name of the disk. Example: /dev/xvdb.

Note This parameter will be removed in the future. To ensure compatibility, we recommend that you use other parameters.
/dev/xvdb
Formatstring

The image format.

qcow2
Tagsarray<object>

The tags of the image.

Tagobject
TagValuestring

The tag value of the custom image.

TestValue
TagKeystring

The tag key of the custom image.

TestKey

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
  "Image": {
    "CreationTime": "2018-01-10T01:01:10Z",
    "Status": "Available",
    "ImageFamily": "testImageFamily",
    "Progress": "100",
    "IsCopied": false,
    "IsSupportIoOptimized": true,
    "ImageOwnerAlias": "self",
    "IsSupportCloudinit": true,
    "ImageVersion": "2",
    "Usage": "none",
    "IsSelfShared": "true",
    "Description": "testDescription",
    "Size": 80,
    "Platform": "Aliyun",
    "ImageName": "testImageName",
    "OSName": "Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.1903",
    "ImageId": "m-bp1g7004ksh0oeuc****",
    "OSType": "linux",
    "IsSubscribed": false,
    "ProductCode": "jxsc00****",
    "Architecture": "x86_64",
    "DiskDeviceMappings": {
      "DiskDeviceMapping": [
        {
          "Type": "custom",
          "ImportOSSBucket": "testEcsImport",
          "SnapshotId": "s-bp17ot2q7x72ggtw****",
          "ImportOSSObject": "imageImport",
          "Size": "80",
          "Device": "/dev/xvdb",
          "Format": "qcow2"
        }
      ]
    },
    "Tags": {
      "Tag": [
        {
          "TagValue": "TestValue",
          "TagKey": "TestKey"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
403InvalidUser.UnauthorizedThe user is not authorized.The account you are currently using does not have permission.
404InvalidRegionId.NotFoundThe RegionId provided does not exist.The specified region does not exist.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change timeSummary of changesOperation
2024-12-17API Description Update. The Error code has changedView Change Details