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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

This guide focuses on the AWS SDK for PHP client for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. This guide assumes that you have already downloaded and installed the AWS SDK for PHP. See Installation for more information on getting started.

Creating a client

First you need to create a client object using one of the following techniques.

Factory method

The easiest way to get up and running quickly is to use the Aws\Ec2\Ec2Client::factory() method and provide your credential profile (via the profile option), which identifies the set of credentials you want to use from your ~/.aws/credentials file (see Using the AWS credentials file and credential profiles).

A region parameter is also required and must be set to one of the following values: us-east-1, ap-northeast-1, sa-east-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, us-west-2, us-gov-west-1, us-west-1, cn-north-1, eu-west-1

use Aws\Ec2\Ec2Client;

$client = Ec2Client::factory(array(
    'profile' => '<profile in your aws credentials file>',
    'region'  => '<region name>'
));

You can provide your credential profile like in the preceding example, specify your access keys directly (via key and secret), or you can choose to omit any credential information if you are using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for EC2 instances or credentials sourced from the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables.

Note

The profile option and AWS credential file support is only available for version 2.6.1 of the SDK and higher. We recommend that all users update their copies of the SDK to take advantage of this feature, which is a safer way to specify credentials than explicitly providing key and secret.

Service builder

A more robust way to connect to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is through the service builder. This allows you to specify credentials and other configuration settings in a configuration file. These settings can then be shared across all clients so that you only have to specify your settings once.

use Aws\Common\Aws;

// Create a service builder using a configuration file
$aws = Aws::factory('/path/to/my_config.json');

// Get the client from the builder by namespace
$client = $aws->get('Ec2');

For more information about configuration files, see Configuring the SDK.

API Reference

Please see the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Client API reference for a details about all of the available methods, including descriptions of the inputs and outputs.

AcceptVpcPeeringConnection AllocateAddress
AssignPrivateIpAddresses AssociateAddress
AssociateDhcpOptions AssociateRouteTable
AttachInternetGateway AttachNetworkInterface
AttachVolume AttachVpnGateway
AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress
BundleInstance CancelBundleTask
CancelConversionTask CancelExportTask
CancelReservedInstancesListing CancelSpotInstanceRequests
ConfirmProductInstance CopyImage
CopySnapshot CreateCustomerGateway
CreateDhcpOptions CreateImage
CreateInstanceExportTask CreateInternetGateway
CreateKeyPair CreateNetworkAcl
CreateNetworkAclEntry CreateNetworkInterface
CreatePlacementGroup CreateReservedInstancesListing
CreateRoute CreateRouteTable
CreateSecurityGroup CreateSnapshot
CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription CreateSubnet
CreateTags CreateVolume
CreateVpc CreateVpcPeeringConnection
CreateVpnConnection CreateVpnConnectionRoute
CreateVpnGateway DeleteCustomerGateway
DeleteDhcpOptions DeleteInternetGateway
DeleteKeyPair DeleteNetworkAcl
DeleteNetworkAclEntry DeleteNetworkInterface
DeletePlacementGroup DeleteRoute
DeleteRouteTable DeleteSecurityGroup
DeleteSnapshot DeleteSpotDatafeedSubscription
DeleteSubnet DeleteTags
DeleteVolume DeleteVpc
DeleteVpcPeeringConnection DeleteVpnConnection
DeleteVpnConnectionRoute DeleteVpnGateway
DeregisterImage DescribeAccountAttributes
DescribeAddresses DescribeAvailabilityZones
DescribeBundleTasks DescribeConversionTasks
DescribeCustomerGateways DescribeDhcpOptions
DescribeExportTasks DescribeImageAttribute
DescribeImages DescribeInstanceAttribute
DescribeInstanceStatus DescribeInstances
DescribeInternetGateways DescribeKeyPairs
DescribeNetworkAcls DescribeNetworkInterfaceAttribute
DescribeNetworkInterfaces DescribePlacementGroups
DescribeRegions DescribeReservedInstances
DescribeReservedInstancesListings DescribeReservedInstancesModifications
DescribeReservedInstancesOfferings DescribeRouteTables
DescribeSecurityGroups DescribeSnapshotAttribute
DescribeSnapshots DescribeSpotDatafeedSubscription
DescribeSpotInstanceRequests DescribeSpotPriceHistory
DescribeSubnets DescribeTags
DescribeVolumeAttribute DescribeVolumeStatus
DescribeVolumes DescribeVpcAttribute
DescribeVpcPeeringConnections DescribeVpcs
DescribeVpnConnections DescribeVpnGateways
DetachInternetGateway DetachNetworkInterface
DetachVolume DetachVpnGateway
DisableVgwRoutePropagation DisassociateAddress
DisassociateRouteTable EnableVgwRoutePropagation
EnableVolumeIO GetConsoleOutput
GetPasswordData ImportInstance
ImportKeyPair ImportVolume
ModifyImageAttribute ModifyInstanceAttribute
ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute ModifyReservedInstances
ModifySnapshotAttribute ModifySubnetAttribute
ModifyVolumeAttribute ModifyVpcAttribute
MonitorInstances PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering
RebootInstances RegisterImage
RejectVpcPeeringConnection ReleaseAddress
ReplaceNetworkAclAssociation ReplaceNetworkAclEntry
ReplaceRoute ReplaceRouteTableAssociation
ReportInstanceStatus RequestSpotInstances
ResetImageAttribute ResetInstanceAttribute
ResetNetworkInterfaceAttribute ResetSnapshotAttribute
RevokeSecurityGroupEgress RevokeSecurityGroupIngress
RunInstances StartInstances
StopInstances TerminateInstances
UnassignPrivateIpAddresses UnmonitorInstances