I just ran into a problem running some code that worked the last time I ran it. Code that was calling DescribeImages on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API. It was a really odd problem because my particular line of code was just calling the DescribeImages() method on the AmazonEC2Client which never returned and just blocked forever.
Well, it used to work…
I watched the request again the AWS REST API happen in Fiddler, which was also not very helpful. Anything I tried to do to the request would result in a response from the API that would never send a body.
To fix the problem, I had to be more specific and create a DescribeImagesRequest. Fortunately, I didn’t actually want to receive a list of ALL of my AMIs, but rather just look up the ID of a specific AMI by name. My before/after code is below:
Before
After
Hopefully this helps someone running into the same problem.