aws ec2

https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/ec2/index.html

• aws ec2 describe-account-attributes

• 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

Volumes:

• aws ec2 describe-volumes

Key management:

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

• aws ec2 describe-addresses

AWS VPN

• aws ec2 create-vpn-connection

AWS VPC

• aws ec2 create-vpc
• aws ec2 describe-vpcs

Subnet

• aws ec2 create-subnet

Security Group

• authorize-security-group-egress
• authorize-security-group-ingress

Create

• create-vpc
• create-subnet
• create-nat-gateway
• create-key-pair
• create-vpn-connection
• create-route

create-capacity-reservation
create-capacity-reservation-fleet
create-carrier-gateway
create-client-vpn-endpoint
create-client-vpn-route
create-customer-gateway
create-default-subnet
create-default-vpc
create-dhcp-options
create-egress-only-internet-gateway
create-fleet
create-flow-logs
create-fpga-image
create-image
create-instance-event-window
create-instance-export-task
create-internet-gateway
create-ipam
create-ipam-pool
create-ipam-scope
create-key-pair
create-launch-template
create-launch-template-version
create-local-gateway-route
create-local-gateway-route-table-vpc-association
create-managed-prefix-list
create-nat-gateway
create-network-acl
create-network-acl-entry
create-network-insights-access-scope
create-network-insights-path
create-network-interface
create-network-interface-permission
create-placement-group
create-public-ipv4-pool
create-replace-root-volume-task
create-reserved-instances-listing
create-restore-image-task
create-route
create-route-table
create-security-group
create-snapshot
create-snapshots
create-spot-datafeed-subscription
create-store-image-task
create-subnet
create-subnet-cidr-reservation
create-tags
create-traffic-mirror-filter
create-traffic-mirror-filter-rule
create-traffic-mirror-session
create-traffic-mirror-target
create-transit-gateway
create-transit-gateway-connect
create-transit-gateway-connect-peer
create-transit-gateway-multicast-domain
create-transit-gateway-peering-attachment
create-transit-gateway-prefix-list-reference
create-transit-gateway-route
create-transit-gateway-route-table
create-transit-gateway-vpc-attachment
create-volume
create-vpc
create-vpc-endpoint
create-vpc-endpoint-connection-notification
create-vpc-endpoint-service-configuration
create-vpc-peering-connection
create-vpn-connection
create-vpn-connection-route
create-vpn-gateway

Related terms

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

See also

• aws ec2 [ create-vpc | create-subnet | create-nat-gateway | create-key-pair | create-vpn-connection | create-route | create-route-table | create-vpc-endpoint ]
• 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