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Operations and Methods

The following method-implemented operations are supported for the /virtualMachines collection in the Veeam Backup for AWS REST API:

(GET)/api/v1/virtualMachines — retrieves resource representation of all EC2 Instances that can be protected.
(GET)/api/v1/virtualMachines/{virtualMachineId} — retrieves representation of an EC2 instance with the specified ID.
(POST)/api/v1/virtualMachines/{virtualMachineId}/takeSnapshot — performs manual snapshot operation for an EC2 instance with the specified ID.
(POST)/api/v1/virtualMachines/{virtualMachineId}/deleteSnapshots — removes the snapshot chain of an EC2 instance with the specified ID.
(POST)/api/v1/virtualMachines/{virtualMachineId}/deleteBackups — removes the backup chain of an EC2 instance with the specified ID.
(POST)/api/v1/virtualMachines/export — exports to a file a list of EC2 instances that can be protected.