where can i find metadata of all the amazon cloud services? - amazon-web-services

Question

I searching for what are the metadata that AWS uses for each and every service. For AWS instance it uses ami-id, ami_launch-index, hostname, instance-action and many more as the metadata like wise where i can find metadata for all the services like EBS, VPN....
Reference
Information obtained from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Microsoft Windows Instances pdf pg no : 232 – 242

Answer 1

I believe you are interested in knowing the properties of the each AWS Resource / Service and not the meta-data. I don't think there is a straight answer. The work around what I can recommend is using the AWS CloudFormation's Syntax definition of each AWS Resource.
For Example :
EC2 Instance is represented by the following syntax. Not all of them are mandatory. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-instance.html
Look at the KEYS of the Key:Value pair provided below [ "AvailabilityZone" : String ]
{
"Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
"Properties" : {
"AvailabilityZone" : String,
"BlockDeviceMappings" : [ EC2 Block Device Mapping, ... ],
"DisableApiTermination" : Boolean,
"EbsOptimized" : Boolean,
"IamInstanceProfile" : String,
"ImageId" : String,
"InstanceInitiatedShutdownBehavior" : String,
"InstanceType" : String,
"KernelId" : String,
"KeyName" : String,
"Monitoring" : Boolean,
"NetworkInterfaces" : [ EC2 Network Interface, ... ],
"PlacementGroupName" : String,
"PrivateIpAddress" : String,
"RamdiskId" : String,
"SecurityGroupIds" : [ String, ... ],
"SecurityGroups" : [ String, ... ],
"SourceDestCheck" : Boolean,
"SsmAssociations" : [ SSMAssociation, ... ]
"SubnetId" : String,
"Tags" : [ Resource Tag, ... ],
"Tenancy" : String,
"UserData" : String,
"Volumes" : [ EC2 MountPoint, ... ],
"AdditionalInfo" : String
}
}
For VPC [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-ec2-vpc.html]
{
"Type" : "AWS::EC2::VPC",
"Properties" : {
"CidrBlock" : String,
"EnableDnsSupport" : Boolean,
"EnableDnsHostnames" : Boolean,
"InstanceTenancy" : String,
"Tags" : [ Resource Tag, ... ]
}
}
For EBS Volume [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-ebs-volume.html]
{
"Type":"AWS::EC2::Volume",
"Properties" : {
"AutoEnableIO" : Boolean,
"AvailabilityZone" : String,
"Encrypted" : Boolean,
"Iops" : Number,
"KmsKeyId" : String,
"Size" : String,
"SnapshotId" : String,
"Tags" : [ Resource Tag, ... ],
"VolumeType" : String
}
}
The CloudFormation Resource Page has details for most of the items [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-template-resource-type-ref.html]. Below is the current list as of today [7 Jan 2016]
AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup
AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration
AWS::AutoScaling::LifecycleHook
AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy
AWS::AutoScaling::ScheduledAction
AWS::CloudFormation::Authentication
AWS::CloudFormation::CustomResource
AWS::CloudFormation::Init
AWS::CloudFormation::Interface
AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition
AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle
AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
AWS::CloudTrail::Trail
AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
AWS::CodeDeploy::Application
AWS::CodeDeploy::DeploymentConfig
AWS::CodeDeploy::DeploymentGroup
AWS::CodePipeline::CustomActionType
AWS::CodePipeline::Pipeline
AWS::Config::ConfigRule
AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder
AWS::Config::DeliveryChannel
AWS::DataPipeline::Pipeline
AWS::DirectoryService::MicrosoftAD
AWS::DirectoryService::SimpleAD
AWS::DynamoDB::Table
AWS::EC2::CustomerGateway
AWS::EC2::DHCPOptions
AWS::EC2::EIP
AWS::EC2::EIPAssociation
AWS::EC2::Instance
AWS::EC2::InternetGateway
AWS::EC2::NetworkAcl
AWS::EC2::NetworkAclEntry
AWS::EC2::NetworkInterface
AWS::EC2::NetworkInterfaceAttachment
AWS::EC2::PlacementGroup
AWS::EC2::Route
AWS::EC2::RouteTable
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupEgress
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress
AWS::EC2::SpotFleet
AWS::EC2::Subnet
AWS::EC2::SubnetNetworkAclAssociation
AWS::EC2::SubnetRouteTableAssociation
AWS::EC2::Volume
AWS::EC2::VolumeAttachment
AWS::EC2::VPC
AWS::EC2::VPCDHCPOptionsAssociation
AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint
AWS::EC2::VPCGatewayAttachment
AWS::EC2::VPCPeeringConnection
AWS::EC2::VPNConnection
AWS::EC2::VPNConnectionRoute
AWS::EC2::VPNGateway
AWS::EC2::VPNGatewayRoutePropagation
AWS::ECS::Cluster
AWS::ECS::Service
AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
AWS::EFS::FileSystem
AWS::EFS::MountTarget
AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster
AWS::ElastiCache::ParameterGroup
AWS::ElastiCache::ReplicationGroup
AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup
AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroupIngress
AWS::ElastiCache::SubnetGroup
AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Application
AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::ApplicationVersion
AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::ConfigurationTemplate
AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment
AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
AWS::IAM::AccessKey
AWS::IAM::Group
AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile
AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy
AWS::IAM::Policy
AWS::IAM::Role
AWS::IAM::User
AWS::IAM::UserToGroupAddition
AWS::Kinesis::Stream
AWS::KMS::Key
AWS::Lambda::EventSourceMapping
AWS::Lambda::Function
AWS::Lambda::Permission
AWS::Logs::Destination
AWS::Logs::LogGroup
AWS::Logs::LogStream
AWS::Logs::MetricFilter
AWS::Logs::SubscriptionFilter
AWS::OpsWorks::App
AWS::OpsWorks::ElasticLoadBalancerAttachment
AWS::OpsWorks::Instance
AWS::OpsWorks::Layer
AWS::OpsWorks::Stack
AWS::RDS::DBCluster
AWS::RDS::DBClusterParameterGroup
AWS::RDS::DBInstance
AWS::RDS::DBParameterGroup
AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup
AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroupIngress
AWS::RDS::DBSubnetGroup
AWS::RDS::EventSubscription
AWS::RDS::OptionGroup
AWS::Redshift::Cluster
AWS::Redshift::ClusterParameterGroup
AWS::Redshift::ClusterSecurityGroup
AWS::Redshift::ClusterSecurityGroupIngress
AWS::Redshift::ClusterSubnetGroup
AWS::Route53::HealthCheck
AWS::Route53::HostedZone
AWS::Route53::RecordSet
AWS::Route53::RecordSetGroup
AWS::S3::Bucket
AWS::S3::BucketPolicy
AWS::SDB::Domain

Answer 2

Try using AWS CLI.
You can execute the describe commands of the various services to see and understand the metadata