aws ec2

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/

• Get a list of EC2 instances:

aws ec2 describe-instances

• Get a list of EC2 instances and filter Name, Id and Status:

aws ec2 describe-instances | egrep 'InstanceId|"Name":|"Value":|PublicIp'

• Create or run an instance

aws ec2 run-instances

• Start an EC2 instance:

aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-08cf893bbcfd7dc46 (Use your own instance-id)

• Stop an EC2 instance:

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-08cf893bbcfd7dc46 (Use your own instance-id)

• Query and display EC2 metadata: ec2metadata (Distributed in cloud-guest-utils package at least in Debian)

• aws ec2 export-image
• aws ec2 terminate-instances

• aws ec2 describe-vpcs
• aws ec2 describe-images
• aws ec2 describe-availability-zones

Key management:

• aws ec2 describe-key-pairs
• aws ec2 import-key-pair

Related terms

• AWS CLI
• Ansible Amazon.aws.ec2
• Show Relational Database Service (RDS) instances: aws rds describe-db-instances
• Terraform resource: aws_instance

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]

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

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-instance-metadata.html