NAME

       ec2-import-instance - Create an import instance task to import a virtual machine into EC2

SYNOPSIS

        ec2iin ([ec2ii, ec2-import-instance])
        ec2iin [GENERAL OPTIONS] [SPECIFIC OPTIONS] disk-image

GENERAL NOTES

        Any command option/parameter may be passed a value of '-' to indicate
        that values for that option should be read from stdin.

DESCRIPTION

        Create an import instance task to import a virtual machine into EC2
        using meta-data from the given disk image. The volume size for the
        imported disk-image will be calculated automatically, unless specified.

GENERAL OPTIONS

        -O, --aws-access-key KEY
            AWS Access Key ID. Defaults to the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY
            environment variable (if set).

        -W, --aws-secret-key KEY
            AWS Secret Access Key. Defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY
            environment variable (if set).

        -T, --security-token TOKEN
            AWS delegation token. Defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN
            environment variable (if set).

        -K, --private-key KEY
            [DEPRECATED] Specify KEY as the private key to use. Defaults to the value of the
            EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.

        -C, --cert CERT
            [DEPRECATED] Specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. Defaults to the value
            of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.

        -U, --url URL
            Specify URL as the web service URL to use. Defaults to the value of
            'https://ec2.amazonaws.com' (us-east-1) or to that of the
            EC2_URL environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.

        --region REGION
            Specify REGION as the web service region to use.
            This option will override the URL specified by the "-U URL" option
            and EC2_URL environment variable.
            This option defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable
            or us-east-1 if this environment variable is not set.

        -D, --auth-dry-run
            Check if you can perform the requested action rather than actually performing it.

        -v, --verbose
            Verbose output.

        -?, --help
            Display this help.

        -H, --headers
            Display column headers.

        --debug
            Display additional debugging information.

        --show-empty-fields
            Indicate empty fields.

        --hide-tags
            Do not display tags for tagged resources.

        --connection-timeout TIMEOUT
            Specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).

        --request-timeout TIMEOUT
            Specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).

SPECIFIC OPTIONS

        -t, --instance-type INSTANCETYPE
            Specifies the type of instance to be launched. Refer to the latest
            Developer's Guide for valid values. Defaults to m1.small if not supplied.

        -g, --group GROUP [--group GROUP...]
            Specifies the security group (or groups if specified multiple times)
            within which the instance(s) should be run. Determines the ingress
            firewall rules that will be applied to the launched instances.
            Defaults to the user's default group if not supplied.

        -f, --format FORMAT
            The file format of the disk image. Refer to the latest Developer's
            Guide for valid values. [REQUIRED]

        -a, --architecture ARCHITECTURE
            The architecture of the image; (one of i386 or x86_64)
            Defaults to i386 if --instance-type is not supplied.

        -p, --platform PLATFORM
            Specifies the platform of the virtual machine. See the Developer's
            Guide to see the supported values. Defaults to Windows.

        -b, --bucket BUCKET
            S3 destination bucket name for the manifest. [REQUIRED, unless the option
            --manifest-url is specified]

        -o, --owner-akid OWNERAKID
            AWS Access Key Id of the owner of BUCKET.

        -w, --owner-sak SECRETKEY
            AWS Secret Access Key of the owner of BUCKET, used to sign the import
            -manifest URL. This parameter value is not sent to EC2. [REQUIRED]

        --prefix PREFIX
            Prefix for the manifest-file and disk-image file parts within the S3
            bucket. [OPTIONAL]

        --manifest-url url
            Optionally, specify the URL for an existing import-manifest file already
            uploaded to S3 [OPTIONAL]. This option cannot be specified if --bucket
            has been specified.

        -s, --volume-size SIZE
            The size of the EBS volume, in GiB (2^30 bytes), that will hold the
            converted image. If this option is omitted, the required volume size
            will be computed from the image file. Minimum required boot volume size
            for EC2 is 4 GiB.

        -z, --availability-zone ZONE
            Specifies the availability zone for the imported virtual machine. Run the
            'ec2-describe-availability-zones' command for a list of values, and
            see the latest Developer's Guide for their meanings.

        -d, --description DESCRIPTION
            An optional, free-form comment that will be returned verbatim during
            subsequent calls to ec2-describe-conversion-tasks.  Maximum length is 240
            characters.

        --user-data USERDATA
            Specifies the user data to be made available to this instance.

        --user-data-file DATA-FILE
            Specifies the file containing user data to be made available to
            this instance.

        --subnet SUBNET
            If you're using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, this specifies the ID of the
            subnet you want to launch the instance into.

        --private-ip-address ip_address
            If you're using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, you can optionally use this
            parameter to assign the instance a specific available IP address from the
            subnet.

        --monitor
            Enables monitoring of the specified instance(s).

        --instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior BEHAVIOR
            Indicates what the instance(s) should do if an instance shutdown is
            issued. The following values are supported:

             - 'stop': indicates that the instance should move into the stopped
                state and remain available to be restarted.

             - 'terminate': indicates that the instance should move into the
                terminated state.

        -x, --expires DAYS
            Validity period for the signed S3 URLS that allow EC2 to access the manifest
            Defaults to 30 days. [OPTIONAL]

        --ignore-region-affinity
            Ignore the verification check to determine that the bucket's S3 region
            matches the EC2 region where the conversion-task is created.

        --user-threads THREADS
            Maximum number of threads to concurrently upload the file with. Defaults to
            20 threads. [OPTIONAL]

        --dry-run
            Do not create a import task, only validate the disk image.

        --dont-verify-format
            Do not verify the file format.  This is dangerous and may result in a failed
            conversion. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

        --no-upload
            Do not upload a disk image to S3. To complete the import task, requires
            upload using ec2-resume-import.

SEE ALSO

         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2014-05-01/CommandLineReference
         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference