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aws ec2 — Manage AWS EC2 instances and volumes. AWS EC2 provides secure and resizable computing capacity in th

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Problem

How to use the aws ec2 command: Manage AWS EC2 instances and volumes. AWS EC2 provides secure and resizable computing capacity in the AWS cloud for faster development and deployment of applications. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/>.

Solution

aws ec2 — Manage AWS EC2 instances and volumes. AWS EC2 provides secure and resizable computing capacity in the AWS cloud for faster development and deployment of applications. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/>.

Display information about a specific instance:

aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids {{instance_id}}

Display information about all instances:

aws ec2 describe-instances

Display information about all EC2 volumes:

aws ec2 describe-volumes

Delete an EC2 volume:

aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id {{volume_id}}

Create a snapshot from an EC2 volume:

aws ec2 create-snapshot --volume-id {{volume_id}}

List available AMIs (Amazon Machine Images):

aws ec2 describe-images

Show list of all available EC2 commands:

aws ec2 help

Display help for specific EC2 subcommand:

aws ec2 {{subcommand}} help

Code Snippets

Display information about a specific instance

aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids {{instance_id}}

Display information about all instances

aws ec2 describe-instances

Display information about all EC2 volumes

aws ec2 describe-volumes

Delete an EC2 volume

aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id {{volume_id}}

Create a snapshot from an EC2 volume

aws ec2 create-snapshot --volume-id {{volume_id}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/aws ec2

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