aws ec2 describe-instances
Examples
aws ec2 describe-instances
aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids
aws ec2 describe-instances | grep InstanceType
aws ec2 describe-instances | grep AvailabilityZone
aws ec2 describe-instances | egrep "InstanceId|InstanceType|running"
aws ec2 describe-instances | egrep "InstanceId|YOUR_INSTANCE_NAME"
aws ec2 describe-instances | grep -A1 '"Key": "Name"'
aws ec2 describe-instances --output text | egrep -w "Name|PLACEMENT"
aws ec2 describe-instances --region us-west-1
aws ec2 describe-instance --filter "Name=tag:Name,Values=YOUR-TAG-NAME" --query "Reservations[].Instances[?State.Name == 'running'].InstanceId[]" --output text)
List Instance ID, Type and Name
aws ec2 describe-instances | jq -r '.Reservations[].Instances[]|.InstanceId+" "+.InstanceType+" "+(.Tags[] | select(.Key == "Name").Value)' i-001d6ef48fd7da240 t3.xlarge YourExample-workers-Node i-00b1cf99a8fd118aa t2.large your-machine-name i-0a81356d71229695f t3.xlarge YourExample-workers-Node
List Instances with public IP address and Name
aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[?not_null(PublicIpAddress)]' | jq -r '.[][]|.PublicIpAddress+" "+(.Tags[]|select(.Key=="Name").Value)'
State:
aws ec2 describe-instances | grep -iA2 -w state | grep Name
export INSTANCE_ID=$(aws ec2 run-instances .../... | jq -r '.Instances[].InstanceId')
Basic commands
aws ec2 describe-instances
An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeInstances operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credential
Solution: Review configuration with aws configure list
aws ec2 describe-instances --profile YOUR_PROFILE
Related commands
See also
- AWS EC2, AWS::EC2,
aws ec2
[describe-instances | describe-instance-status
|run-instances | terminate-instances | stop-instances
|tags
|describe-vpcs
|describe-addresses
|describe-availability-zones
|describe-subnets
|import-key-pair
|create-key-pair
|create-vpc
|create-internet-gateway
|modify-instance-attribute | ec2-instance-connect | get-console-output
] - 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
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