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Imports the public key from an RSA or ED25519 key pair that you created with a third-party tool. Compare this with CreateKeyPair, in which Amazon Web Services creates the key pair and gives the keys to you (Amazon Web Services keeps a copy of the public key). With ImportKeyPair, you create the key pair and give Amazon Web Services just the public key. The private key is never transferred between you and Amazon Web Services.

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

get/#Action=ImportKeyPair

Query parameters

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>.

KeyNamestring required

A unique name for the key pair.

PublicKeyMaterialstring required

The public key. For API calls, the text must be base64-encoded. For command line tools, base64 encoding is performed for you.

ResourceType'capacity-reservation' | 'client-vpn-endpoint' | 'customer-gateway' | 'carrier-gateway' | 'coip-pool' | 'dedicated-host' | 'dhcp-options' | 'egress-only-internet-gateway' | 'elastic-ip' | 'elastic-gpu' | 'export-image-task' | 'export-instance-task' | 'fleet' | 'fpga-image' | 'host-reservation' | 'image' | 'import-image-task' | 'import-snapshot-task' | 'instance' | 'instance-event-window' | 'internet-gateway' | 'ipam' | 'ipam-pool' | 'ipam-scope' | 'ipv4pool-ec2' | 'ipv6pool-ec2' | 'key-pair' | 'launch-template' | 'local-gateway' | 'local-gateway-route-table' | 'local-gateway-virtual-interface' | 'local-gateway-virtual-interface-group' | 'local-gateway-route-table-vpc-association' | 'local-gateway-route-table-virtual-interface-group-association' | 'natgateway' | 'network-acl' | 'network-interface' | 'network-insights-analysis' | 'network-insights-path' | 'network-insights-access-scope' | 'network-insights-access-scope-analysis' | 'placement-group' | 'prefix-list' | 'replace-root-volume-task' | 'reserved-instances' | 'route-table' | 'security-group' | 'security-group-rule' | 'snapshot' | 'spot-fleet-request' | 'spot-instances-request' | 'subnet' | 'subnet-cidr-reservation' | 'traffic-mirror-filter' | 'traffic-mirror-session' | 'traffic-mirror-target' | 'transit-gateway' | 'transit-gateway-attachment' | 'transit-gateway-connect-peer' | 'transit-gateway-multicast-domain' | 'transit-gateway-policy-table' | 'transit-gateway-route-table' | 'transit-gateway-route-table-announcement' | 'volume' | 'vpc' | 'vpc-endpoint' | 'vpc-endpoint-connection' | 'vpc-endpoint-service' | 'vpc-endpoint-service-permission' | 'vpc-peering-connection' | 'vpn-connection' | 'vpn-gateway' | 'vpc-flow-log' | 'capacity-reservation-fleet' | 'traffic-mirror-filter-rule' | 'vpc-endpoint-connection-device-type' | 'verified-access-instance' | 'verified-access-group' | 'verified-access-endpoint' | 'verified-access-policy' | 'verified-access-trust-provider' | 'vpn-connection-device-type' | 'vpc-block-public-access-exclusion' | 'ipam-resource-discovery' | 'ipam-resource-discovery-association'

The type of resource to tag on creation.

The tags to apply to the imported key pair.

Action'ImportKeyPair' required
Version'2016-11-15' required

Response

Success