EC2-STOP-INSTANCES(1)

📦 version 1.6.14.1, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 EC2-STOP-INSTANCES(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section of the manual, and today's main character is ec2-stop-instances — the little command that tells your running instances to take a nap. 💤✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ec2-stop-instances — Stop running instances

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ec2stop ([ec2-stop-instances])
ec2stop [GENERAL OPTIONS] INSTANCE [INSTANCE [...]]

🫶 GENERAL NOTES 🫶

Any command option or parameter can be handed the value - and that literally means "read the values for this option from stdin, bestie." 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Stop selected running instances. That's the whole vibe.

The INSTANCE parameter is an instance ID to stop. Yes, singular, yes, you can pass a bunch. 👑

💜 GENERAL OPTIONS 💜

  • -O, --aws-access-key KEY — Your AWS Access Key ID. Defaults to whatever the AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is holding (if it's set at all, no cap).
  • -W, --aws-secret-key KEY — Your 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. ngl, this one's giving legacy energy — deprecated, so maybe don't make it your whole personality.
  • -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 living in the past fr fr.
  • -U, --url URL — Specify URL as the web service URL to use. Defaults to '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 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 is not set. region supremacy ✨
  • -D, --auth-dry-run — Check if you can perform the requested action rather than actually performing it. it's giving "look but don't touch" 🫣
  • -v, --verbose — Verbose output. spill the tea, tell me everything 🍓
  • -?, --help — Display this help.
  • -H, --headers — Display column headers.
  • --debug — Display additional debugging information. for when you need the extra extra. 🔥
  • --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).

🎀 SPECIFIC OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f, --force — Forcefully stops the instance. no chill, no mercy, just stopped. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

bestie, quick reminder: -K/--private-key and -C/--cert are DEPRECATED. i'm not being dramatic, the manual literally says so. 🙈

and that's the whole page, periodt. 💖 this one came from the EC2 API command line tools, version 1.6.14.1, api 2014-05-01 — yes it's an old queen but she still serves. 🧚‍♀️🌈 bye babes, go stop some instances responsibly 💅✨

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