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ReleaseIpamPoolAllocation - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

ReleaseIpamPoolAllocation

Release an allocation within an IPAM pool. The Region you use should be the IPAM pool locale. The locale is the AWS Region where this IPAM pool is available for allocations. You can only use this action to release manual allocations. To remove an allocation for a resource without deleting the resource, set its monitored state to false using ModifyIpamResourceCidr. For more information, see Release an allocation in the Amazon VPC IPAM User Guide.

Note

All EC2 API actions follow an eventual consistency model.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

Cidr

The CIDR of the allocation you want to release.

Type: String

Required: Yes

DryRun

A check for 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 DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

IpamPoolAllocationId

The ID of the allocation.

Type: String

Required: Yes

IpamPoolId

The ID of the IPAM pool which contains the allocation you want to release.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

success

Indicates if the release was successful.

Type: Boolean

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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