EC2 DescribeStoreImageTasks API not returning expected results

[tim-finnigan]

Original issue: https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/3850

1) The bucket filter is not getting applied in this example. (It only works if ImageIds is removed)

import boto3
client = boto3.client('ec2')

response = client.describe_store_image_tasks(
    ImageIds=['ami-086c25358xxxxxx'], 
    Filters=[{"Name": "bucket", "Values": ["wrong-bucket"]}]
)

print(response)

2) When ImageIds is applied, it only returns the latest StoreImageTask result.

[tim-finnigan]

D97728109

[tim-finnigan]

We heard back from a member of the EC2 team who noted that this is not a bug. The behavior of this API is that when ImageIds are explicitly passed in, then the filters are ignored. Only when there are no ImageIds present does the API defer to the passed in filters to find the StoreImage tasks.

With that said, they agreed it is not clear from the docs that this is the behavior. They plan to consult with the doc writers to help clarify the behavior here. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Update - this note has been added to the API documentation:

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