AWS CLI cheat sheet

AWS CLI cheat sheet

1. List all ec2 running with output table
$aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=instance-state-name,Values=running" --output table

2. List all ec2 running with output table, with some fields only
$aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=instance-state-name,Values=running" --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[Placement.AvailabilityZone, State.Name, InstanceId,InstanceType,Platform,Tags.Value,State.Code,Tags.Values]' --output table
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|                                    DescribeInstances                                    |
+---------------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------+-------+------+--------+
|  eu-central-1a|  running |  i-0afd59b7 |  m3.xlarge  |  None    |  None |  16  |  None  |
|  eu-central-1a|  running |  i-dfff5b62 |  m4.xlarge  |  windows |  None |  16  |  None  |
|  eu-central-1a|  running |  i-dffc5862 |  m3.medium  |  None    |  None |  16  |  None  |
|  eu-central-1a|  running |  i-697fdfd4 |  c3.2xlarge |  None    |  None |  16  |  None  |
+---------------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------+-------+------+--------

3. Create AMI from running instance
$aws ec2 create-image --instance-id i-0b09a25c58929de26 --name "My server" --no-reboot

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### AWS CLI Ref ###
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/index.html#cli-aws