EC2-CREATE-KEYPAIR(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to ec2-create-keypair(1) — it does exactly one thing and it does it gorgeously: it generates a brand new keypair. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ec2addkey ([ec2-create-keypair, ec2-add-keypair])
ec2addkey [GENERAL OPTIONS] KEY

🦋 GENERAL NOTES 🦋

okay so here's a lil universal cheat code, and it's lowkey iconic: any command option or parameter can be handed a value of -, and that means "hey, read the values for this option from stdin instead". every single one. no cap. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Generate a new keypair. periodt. 💖

the KEY parameter is the name of the new keypair — that's literally it, that's the assignment. pick a name, get a keypair. main character behavior fr fr. 🔑

👑 GENERAL OPTIONS 👑

• -O, --aws-access-key KEY — your AWS Access Key ID. defaults to whatever the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is set to (if it's set, bestie).
• -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — your AWS Secret Access Key. defaults to whatever the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable is set to (if it's set).
• -T, --security-token TOKEN — an AWS delegation token. defaults to whatever the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN environment variable is set to (if it's set).
• -K, --private-key KEY — [DEPRECATED] specify KEY as the private key to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if it's set), and it overrides the default.
• -C, --cert CERT — [DEPRECATED] specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. defaults to the value of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if it's set), and it overrides the default.
• -U, --url URL — specify URL as the web service URL to use. defaults to 'https://ec2.amazonaws.com' (us-east-1), or to whatever the EC2_URL environment variable is set to (if it's set). it overrides the default.
• --region REGION — specify REGION as the web service region to use. this option will override the URL specified by the -U URL option and the EC2_URL environment variable. it defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable, or us-east-1 if that environment variable isn't set.
• -D, --auth-dry-run — check whether you can perform the requested action instead of actually performing it. a little vibe check before the commitment, love that for us. 🙈
• -v, --verbose — verbose output.
• -?, --help — display this help.
• -H, --headers — display column headers.
• --debug — display additional debugging information.
• --show-empty-fields — indicate empty fields.
• --hide-tags — do not display tags for tagged resources.
• --connection-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).
• --request-timeout TIMEOUT — specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2014-05-01/CommandLineReference
• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference

not me ending this with the receipts but like. this is the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05-01. she's a lil vintage, she's still slaying. go make that keypair bestie, ily 🫶💜🌈