Resets an attribute of an instance to its default value. To reset thekernel orramdisk, the instance must be in a stopped state. To reset thesourceDestCheck, the instance can be either running or stopped.

ThesourceDestCheck attribute controls whether source/destination checking is enabled. The default value istrue, which means checking is enabled. This value must befalse for a NAT instance to perform NAT. For more information, seeNAT instances in theAmazon VPC User Guide.

Request Parameters

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

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

Errors

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

Examples

Example

This example resets thesourceDestCheck attribute.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ResetInstanceAttribute&InstanceId=i-1234567890abcdef0&Attribute=sourceDestCheck&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<ResetInstanceAttributeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">  <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>  <return>true</return></ResetInstanceAttributeResponse>

See Also

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

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