Terminate Instances operation for the Amazon EC2 REST adapter

The Terminate Instances operation enables you to shut down one or more Amazon EC2 instances.

If you invoke the Terminate Instances operation for an instance more than once, the operation still executes successfully.

Note

A terminated instance remains visible in Amazon EC2 for approximately one hour after termination.

The following figure shows a sample <items> XML element for the Terminate Instances operation.

Sample <items> XML element for the Terminate Instances operation

The following table describes the elements for this adapter request.

Adapter request elements for the Terminate Instances operation

Element	Definition	Required
<access-key>	Specifies the Amazon Web Services (AWS) access key You need to generate the AWS access key by going to the Security Credentials tab in the AWS console.	Conditional; You must specify the Access Key and theSecret Key together in the configuration or the adapter request. If you specify both the keys in the adapter request and in the adapter configuration, the key values in the request override the values in the configuration. If only the Access Key is specified, the adapter ignores the value.
<secret-key>	Specifies the AWS secret access key You need to generate the AWS secret access key by going to the Security Credentials tab in the AWS console.	Conditional; You must specify the Access Key and theSecret Key together in the configuration or the adapter request. If you specify both the keys in the adapter request and in the adapter configuration, the key values in the request override the values in the configuration. If only the Secret Access Key is specified, the adapter ignores the value.
<session-token>	Specifies the temporary session token generated using the AWS APIs.	Conditional; You must specify the Access Key and Secret Key as well in the configuration or the adapter request, else the <session-token> value is ignored.
<region>	Specifies the region with which you want the adapter to communicate Amazon EC2 is hosted in multiple locations world-wide. You must specify the region in which you want the adapter to perform the actions. Valid values: us-east-1 us-west-2 (default) us-west-1 eu-west-1 ap-southeast-1 ap-northeast-1 ap-southeast-2 sa-east-1	No
<operation-name>	Specifies the name of the operation: terminate-instances	Yes
<instance-set>	Contains one or more instance IDs corresponding to the instances that you want to terminate	Yes

The following figure shows a sample adapter request for the Terminate Instances operation.

Sample adapter request for the Terminate Instances operation

<amazon-ec2-rest-request>
   <operation-name>terminate-instances</operation-name>
   <parameters>
     <items>
       <item>
         <parameters>
           <instances-set>
             <item>
               <instance-id>i-f2cc89fb</instance-id>
             </item>
           </instances-set>
         </parameters>
       </item>
     </items>
   </parameters>
</amazon-ec2-rest-request>

The following figure shows the response for the sample Terminate Instances operation.

Sample adapter response for the Terminate Instances operation

<amazon-ec2-rest-response>
<metadata>
   <status>success</status>
</metadata>
<TerminateInstancesResponse>
   <instancesSet>
     <item>
       <instanceId>i-f2cc89fb</instanceId>
       <currentState>
         <code>32</code>
         <name>shutting-down</name>
       </currentState>
       <previousState>
         <code>16</code>
         <name>running</name>
       </previousState>
     </item>
   </instancesSet>
</TerminateInstancesResponse>
</amazon-ec2-rest-response>

Terminate Instances operation for the Amazon EC2 REST adapter

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