AWS CLI Hacks

More on AWS CLI at https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

In many of these examples you will need command line tool jq installed. See https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Generally for Mac: $ brew install jq

EC2 Inventory

# Print instance id, name tag (if set) and instance state by name in CSV format
$ aws cli <profile-name> --output json --region us-east-1 ec2 describe-instances | \
        jq -r '.Reservations[].Instances[] | (.Tags | from_entries) as $tags | [.InstanceId, $tags.Name?, .State.Name] | @csv'
"i-0191a4dge87a52360","instance-b","stopped"
"i-1234567890abcdef0","instance-a","running"