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Describes the specified key pairs or all of your key pairs.

For more information about key pairs, see Amazon EC2 key pairs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

get/#Action=DescribeKeyPairs

Query parameters

Namestring

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Valuesstring[]

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an <code>OR</code>, and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

<p>The filters.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>key-pair-id</code> - The ID of the key pair.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>fingerprint</code> - The fingerprint of the key pair.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>key-name</code> - The name of the key pair.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>tag-key</code> - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>tag</code>:&lt;key&gt; - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key <code>Owner</code> and the value <code>TeamA</code>, specify <code>tag:Owner</code> for the filter name and <code>TeamA</code> for the filter value.</p> </li> </ul>
KeyNamestring[]
<p>The key pair names.</p> <p>Default: Describes all of your key pairs.</p>
KeyPairIdstring[]

The IDs of the key pairs.

DryRunboolean

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

IncludePublicKeyboolean
<p>If <code>true</code>, the public key material is included in the response.</p> <p>Default: <code>false</code> </p>
Action'DescribeKeyPairs' required
Version'2016-11-15' required

Response

Success