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ENS:ImportImage

Last Updated:Apr 08, 2026

Imports an image.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

ens:ImportImage

create

*All Resource

*

None

None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

ImageName

string

Yes

The name of the custom image. The name must be 2 to 128 characters long and must start with a letter or a Chinese character. It can contain digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-). The name cannot start with http:// or https://.

Image name

ComputeType

string

Yes

The type of the image. Valid value: ens_vm (ENS virtual machine image). Default value: ens_vm.

ens_vm

OSSRegion

string

No

The region where the source image is located. Currently, only cn-beijing is supported.

cn-beijing

OSSBucket

string

No

The OSS bucket where the image file is stored.

tmp-hybrid

OSSObject

string

No

The name of the image file (object) in the OSS bucket.

image-test

OSType

string

Yes

The type of the operating system. Valid values:

  • windows

  • linux

Currently, only linux is supported.

linux

Platform

string

No

The operating system distribution. Valid values:

  • centos

  • ubuntu

centos

ImageFormat

string

Yes

The image format.
Valid value: qcow2.





qcow2

Architecture

string

Yes

The system architecture. Valid value:

  • x86_64

x86_64

OSVersion

string

No

The version of the operating system distribution.

6.8

DiskDeviceMapping

array<object>

No

A list of disk mappings that describe the source of the image file.

object

No

Specifies the details of a disk mapping.

OSSRegion

string

No

The region where the image is located.

cn-beijing

OSSBucket

string

No

The OSS bucket that stores the image file.

www-cn

OSSObject

string

No

The name (key) of the image file stored in the OSS bucket.

image-bucket

TargetOSSRegionId

string

No

The ID of the target region where the image will be stored.

Note

Currently, only the cn-beijing and ap-southeast-1 regions are supported.

cn-beijing

LicenseType

string

No

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

Response schema

RequestId

string

The request ID.

CEF72CEB-54B6-4AE8-B225-F876FF7BA984

ImageId

string

The image ID.

m-5wn1dh*******b48f440ntvad

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "CEF72CEB-54B6-4AE8-B225-F876FF7BA984",
  "ImageId": "m-5wn1dh*******b48f440ntvad"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400

NoPermission

Permission denied.

400

InvalidParameter.%s

The specified field %s invalid. Please check it again.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.