DescribeEventDetails - Amazon Health


Returns detailed information about one or more specified events. Information includes standard event data (Amazon Web Services Region, service, and so on, as returned by DescribeEvents), a detailed event description, and possible additional metadata that depends upon the nature of the event. Affected entities are not included. To retrieve the entities, use the DescribeAffectedEntities operation.

If a specified event can't be retrieved, an error message is returned for that event.


This operation supports resource-level permissions. You can use this operation to allow or deny access to specific Amazon Health events. For more information, see Resource- and action-based conditions in the Amazon Health User Guide.

Request Syntax


Request Parameters


The request accepts the following data in JSON format.


A list of event ARNs (unique identifiers). For example: "arn:aws:health:us-east-1::event/EC2/EC2_INSTANCE_RETIREMENT_SCHEDULED/EC2_INSTANCE_RETIREMENT_SCHEDULED_ABC123-CDE456", "arn:aws:health:us-west-1::event/EBS/AWS_EBS_LOST_VOLUME/AWS_EBS_LOST_VOLUME_CHI789_JKL101"

Type: Array of strings


Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1600.


Required: Yes



Type: String


Pattern: .{2,256}

Required: No

Response Syntax


Response Elements


The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.


Error messages for any events that could not be retrieved.

Type: Array of EventDetailsErrorItem objects


Information about the events that could be retrieved.

Type: Array of EventDetails objects




The specified locale is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 400