Terraform resource: aws instance

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/instance

Basic example

resource "aws_instance" "MYexample" {
 ami           = "ami-08d70e59c07c61a3a"
 instance_type = "t2.micro" 

 tags = {
   Name = "your_name_here"
 }
}

See also: AWS instance example with aws_ami lookup

Example for terraform import:

resource "aws_instance" "restore-backups-machine" {
  # (resource arguments)
}

Examples

• AWS instance example with aws_ami lookup and key_name: aws_instance, data.aws_ami
• AWS instance example with aws_ami lookup: aws instance, aws_ami
• AWS instance example: main.tf: aws instance
• AWS instance example creating VPC

aws_instance arguments

• ami
• instance_type
• key_name
• aws_key_pair
• availability_zone
• monitoring
• associate_public_ip_address
• tenancy
• subnet_id, public_ip
• vpc_security_group_ids: (Optional, list) https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/instance#vpc_security_group_ids
• root_block_device
• iops
• iam_instance_profile
• user_data
• credit_specification
• lifecycle
• vpc_security_group_ids

Related terms

• terraform show (grep aws_instance)
• aws ec2 run-instances
• aws ec2 describe-key-pairs
• source (Terraform modules)
• Terraform: Data sources
• Terraform: VPCIdNotSpecified
• Terraform module: ec2-instance
• Terraform resource: aws_volume_attachment
• volume_size
• ebs_block_device resource argument

See also

• Terraform AWS: aws_instance: ami, availability_zone, instance_type, key_name, aws_key_pair, monitoring, associate_public_ip_address, tenancy, subnet_id, user_data, iam_instance_profile, vpc_security_group_ids, root_block_device, ebs_block_device
• Terraform EC2 resources: aws_instance, aws_ebs_volume, aws_volume_attachment, aws_ec2_tag, Terraform module: ec2-instance, ebs_block_device, argument/input
• Terraform AWS resources: IAM, Net, EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Route53, ACM, CloudWatch, CloudFront SES, RDS, DLM

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/instance#key_name