Use DescribeSnapshotAttribute with an AWS SDK or CLI

To describe the snapshot attributes for a snapshot

The following describe-snapshot-attribute example lists the accounts with which a snapshot is shared.

aws ec2 describe-snapshot-attribute \
    --snapshot-id snap-01234567890abcedf \
    --attribute createVolumePermission

Output:

{
    "SnapshotId": "snap-01234567890abcedf",
    "CreateVolumePermissions": [
        {
            "UserId": "123456789012"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Share an Amazon EBS snapshot in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

Example 1: This example describes the specified attribute of the specified snapshot.

Get-EC2SnapshotAttribute -SnapshotId snap-12345678 -Attribute ProductCodes

Output:

CreateVolumePermissions    ProductCodes    SnapshotId
-----------------------    ------------    ----------
{}                         {}              snap-12345678

Example 2: This example describes the specified attribute of the specified snapshot.

(Get-EC2SnapshotAttribute -SnapshotId snap-12345678 -Attribute CreateVolumePermission).CreateVolumePermissions

Output:

Group    UserId
-----    ------
all