Aws ec2 describe-instances

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-instances.html

• aws ec2 describe-instances
• aws ec2 describe-instances | grep InstanceType
• aws ec2 describe-instances | grep AvailabilityZone
• aws ec2 describe-instances | egrep "InstanceId|InstanceType|running"

Basic commands

• aws ec2 describe-instances

An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials

• aws ec2 describe-instances --profile YOUR_PROFILE

Review configuration: aws configure list

Related commands

• aws ec2 run-instances
• Tags
• aws list all

See also

• AWS EC2, Amazon EC2 API, aws ec2, AWS::EC2, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, CPU credits, Instance type, EC2 limitations, 169.254.169.254, Instance metadata and user data (IMDS), InstanceType, InstanceId, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, AWS EC2 Instance Connect, launch template, lifecycle, AWS Security group (SG), Amazon EC2 Recycle Bin, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, Global View
• AWS CLI, aws [ configure | iam | ec2 | ecs | eks | s3 | rds | sts | cloudwatch | cloudformation | cloudfront | eventbridge | lambda ], aws configure list, .aws/credentials, .aws/config, ~/.aws/cli/alias, --output [ table | json | text | XXX ], Aws cli environmental variables: AWS_PROFILE, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, AWS_REGION, AWS_CLI_AUTO_PROMPT, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, aws list all, auto-prompt, --version, whoamiaws, --filters, --help