EC2-DESCRIBE-INSTANCES(1)

📦 version 1.6.14.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 EC2-DESCRIBE-INSTANCES 💖

okay bestie, welcome to your new fave manual page. this one lives in User Commands land (section 1, as the fancy (1) suggests) and it's literally the tool you use to go peek at your EC2 instances. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

ec2-describe-instances — List instances

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ec2din ([ec2-describe-instances])
ec2din [GENERAL OPTIONS] [INSTANCE [INSTANCE [...]]]

🎀 GENERAL NOTES 🎀

Any command option/parameter may be passed a value of - to indicate that values for that option should be read from stdin. yes, literally the dash. it's giving "read it yourself from stdin" energy. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

List and describe your instances. that's the whole vibe. 🔥

The INSTANCE parameter is the instance ID(s) to describe. so you point at the ones you care about.

If unspecified all your instances will be returned. no instance IDs? no problem, you get the whole roster. main character energy, honestly. 👑

💜 GENERAL OPTIONS 💜

  • -O, --aws-access-key KEY — AWS Access Key ID. Defaults to the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable (if set). ✨
  • -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — AWS Secret Access Key. Defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY environment variable (if set). 🤫
  • -T, --security-token TOKEN — AWS delegation token. Defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN environment variable (if 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 set). Overrides the default. ⚠️ yes it's deprecated, we don't make the rules, we just report them.
  • -C, --cert CERT — [DEPRECATED] Specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. Defaults to the value of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). Overrides the default. ⚠️ also deprecated, also still here, iconic in a "why are you still at this party" way.
  • -U, --url URL — Specify URL as the web service URL to use. Defaults to the value of https://ec2.amazonaws.com (us-east-1) or to that of the EC2_URL environment variable (if set). 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 EC2_URL environment variable. This option defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable or us-east-1 if this environment variable is not set. 🗺️
  • -D, --auth-dry-run — Check if you can perform the requested action rather than actually performing it. the "look but don't touch" option, love her. 👀
  • -v, --verbose — Verbose output. say more, queen. 🗣️
  • -?, --help — Display this help. 🆘
  • -H, --headers — Display column headers. labels on everything, we stan organization. 📋
  • --debug — Display additional debugging information. for when you're deep in the trenches fr fr. 🔍
  • --show-empty-fields — Indicate empty fields. no ghosting the blanks. 👻
  • --hide-tags — Do not display tags for tagged resources. shy tags stay hidden. 🙈
  • --connection-timeout TIMEOUT — Specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds). ⏱️
  • --request-timeout TIMEOUT — Specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds). ⏳

💅 SPECIFIC OPTIONS 💅

  • -F, --filter FILTER — Add a filter criterion for the result-set. narrow it down, bestie, you don't need the whole internet. 🎯

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

and that's the whole page, no notes. 💖 this beauty comes to you from the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api=2014-05-01, and it's dated right there alongside the EC2-DESCRIBE-INSTANCES(1) footer energy. slay, go describe some instances, mwah 🫶✨🎀

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