DescribeSnapshotsUsage - Elastic Compute Service - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Queries the number of snapshots that are stored in a region and the total size of the snapshots.

Operation description

Usage notes

If you want to view the snapshot usage of each disk in the current region, we recommend that you call the DescribeSnapshotLinks operation to query snapshot chain information.

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.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ecs:DescribeSnapshotsUsage	get	All Resources ``	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
RegionId	string	Yes	The region ID of the snapshot. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.	cn-hangzhou

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
SnapshotSize	long	The total size of snapshots stored in the current region. Unit: bytes.	122
RequestId	string	The request ID.	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E
SnapshotCount	integer	The number of snapshots stored in the current region.	5

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "SnapshotSize": 122,
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
  "SnapshotCount": 5
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
403	InvalidParam.RegionId	The specified region is not exist.	The specified region does not exist.

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

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2024-12-02	API Description Update. The Error code has changed	View Change Details