EC2-START-INSTANCES(1)
π EC2-START-INSTANCES π
okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for ec2-start-instances, a User Command, aka the lil glow-up button for your sleepy EC2 instances. this is the ec2-start-instances(1) page and honestly? it's short, it's sweet, it gets the job done. let's go π¦
β¨ NAME β¨
ec2-start-instances β Start running instances
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
ec2start ([ec2-start-instances])
ec2start [GENERAL OPTIONS] INSTANCE [INSTANCE [...]]
π«Ά GENERAL NOTES π«Ά
lowkey the most important thing in this whole page, so listen up:
- literally any command option or parameter can be handed a value of
-to say "hey, read the values for that option from stdin instead". yes, any of them. the flexibility is giving main character energy fr fr.
π DESCRIPTION π
Start selected running instances. that's it, that's the vibe. β¨
the INSTANCE parameter is an instance ID to start. you can pass more than one, because why wake up just one bestie when you can wake up the whole group chat π
π GENERAL OPTIONS π
-O,--aws-access-keyKEY β your AWS Access Key ID. defaults to whatever theAWS_ACCESS_KEYenvironment variable is set to (if it's set at all).-W,--aws-secret-keyKEY β your AWS Secret Access Key. defaults to the value of theAWS_SECRET_KEYenvironment variable (if set).-T,--security-tokenTOKEN β the AWS delegation token. defaults to the value of theAWS_DELEGATION_TOKENenvironment variable (if set).-K,--private-keyKEY β [DEPRECATED] specify KEY as the private key to use. defaults to the value of theEC2_PRIVATE_KEYenvironment variable (if set). overrides the default. π© deprecated, so maybe don't make this your whole personality.-C,--certCERT β [DEPRECATED] specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. defaults to the value of theEC2_CERTenvironment variable (if set). overrides the default. also deprecated, also a lil vintage π©-U,--urlURL β specify URL as the web service URL to use. defaults tohttps://ec2.amazonaws.com(us-east-1) or to the value of theEC2_URLenvironment variable (if set). overrides the default.--regionREGION β specify REGION as the web service region to use. this option will override the URL specified by the-U URLoption and theEC2_URLenvironment variable. it defaults to the region specified by theEC2_URLenvironment variable, orus-east-1if that environment variable is not set. so basically it's the boss of the URL situation, no cap.-D,--auth-dry-runβ check if you can perform the requested action instead of actually performing it. window shopping, basically ποΈ-v,--verboseβ verbose output. give me all the tea.-?,--helpβ display this help.-H,--headersβ display column headers.--debugβ display additional debugging information.--show-empty-fieldsβ indicate empty fields.--hide-tagsβ do not display tags for tagged resources.--connection-timeoutTIMEOUT β specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).--request-timeoutTIMEOUT β specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2014-05-01/CommandLineReferencehttp://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/CommandLineReference
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