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# EBS Start Snapshot
Creates a new Amazon EBS snapshot. The new snapshot enters the `pending` state after the request completes.
After creating the snapshot, use [PutSnapshotBlock](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/APIReference/API_PutSnapshotBlock.html) to write blocks of data to the snapshot.
External Documentation
To learn more, visit the [AWS documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/APIReference/API_StartSnapshot.html).
## Basic Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AWS Region(s) | Enter the desired AWS Region(s).
To execute the action in multiple regions, provide a comma-separated list.
For example: `us-east-1,eu-west-2`.
If you wish to run the action in all available regions, use the asterisk symbol (`*`) instead. |
| Volume Size | The size of the volume, in GiB. The maximum size is `65536` GiB (64 TiB). |
## Advanced Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Client Token | A unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. Idempotency ensures that an API request completes only once. With an idempotent request, if the original request completes successfully. The subsequent retries with the same client token return the result from the original successful request and they have no additional effect.
If you do not specify a client token, one is automatically generated by the Amazon Web Services SDK.
For more information, see [Idempotency for StartSnapshot API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-direct-api-idempotency.html) in the *Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide*. |
| Description | A description for the snapshot. |
| Disable XML To JSON Auto Convert | When checked, XML responses are not automatically converted into JSON format. |
| Encrypted | Indicates whether to encrypt the snapshot. To create an encrypted snapshot, specify `true`. To create an unencrypted snapshot, omit this parameter.
If you specify a value for **ParentSnapshotId**, omit this parameter.
If you specify `true`, the snapshot is encrypted using the KMS key specified using the **KmsKeyArn** parameter. If no value is specified for **KmsKeyArn**, the default KMS key for your account is used. If no default KMS key has been specified for your account, the Amazon Web Services managed KMS key is used. To set a default KMS key for your account, use [ModifyEbsDefaultKmsKeyId](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyEbsDefaultKmsKeyId.html).
If your account is enabled for encryption by default, you cannot set this parameter to `false`. In this case, you can omit this parameter.
For more information, see [Using encryption](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-accessing-snapshot.html#ebsapis-using-encryption) in the *Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide*. |
| KMS Key ARN | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Key Management Service (KMS) key to be used to encrypt the snapshot. If you do not specify a KMS key, the default Amazon Web Services managed KMS key is used.
If you specify a **ParentSnapshotId**, omit this parameter; the snapshot will be encrypted using the same KMS key that was used to encrypt the parent snapshot.
If **Encrypted** is set to `true`, you must specify a KMS key ARN. |
| Parent Snapshot ID | The ID of the parent snapshot. If there is no parent snapshot, or if you are creating the first snapshot for an on-premises volume, omit this parameter.
If your account is enabled for encryption by default, you cannot use an unencrypted snapshot as a parent snapshot. You must first create an encrypted copy of the parent snapshot using [CopySnapshot](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_CopySnapshot.html). |
| Tags | The tags to apply to the snapshot. |
| Timeout | The amount of time (in minutes) after which the snapshot is automatically cancelled if:
- No blocks are written to the snapshot.
- The snapshot is not completed after writing the last block of data.
If no value is specified, the timeout defaults to `60` minutes. |
## Example Output
```json theme={"dark"}
{
"BlockSize": 0,
"Description": "^[\\S\\s]+$",
"KmsKeyArn": "password",
"OwnerId": "\\S+",
"ParentSnapshotId": "^snap-[0-9a-f]+$",
"SnapshotId": "^snap-[0-9a-f]+$",
"StartTime": "date-time",
"Status": "string",
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "^[\\S\\s]+$",
"Value": "^[\\S\\s]+$"
}
],
"VolumeSize": 0
}
```
## Workflow Library Example
[Ebs Start Snapshot with Aws and Send Results Via Email](https://library.blinkops.com/workflows/ebs-start-snapshot-with-aws-and-send-results-via-email)
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