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Using Python and Boto3 to get Instance Tag information with instance id
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| import boto3 | |
| def get_instance_name(fid): | |
| """ | |
| When given an instance ID as str e.g. 'i-1234567', return the instance 'Name' from the name tag. | |
| :param fid: | |
| :return: | |
| """ | |
| ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2') | |
| ec2instance = ec2.Instance(fid) | |
| instancename = '' | |
| for tags in ec2instance.tags: | |
| if tags["Key"] == 'Name': | |
| instancename = tags["Value"] | |
| return instancename |
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I am getting the folllowing error: EC2' object has no attribute 'Instance'