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7 USEFUL

AWS EC2 CLI COMMANDS


1. To retrieve information about
EC2 Instances

a. aws ec2 describe-instances


b. aws ec2 describe-instances
--instance-ids <i-xxxxxxxxx>
2. To Start/Stop/Terminate
EC2 Instances

a. aws ec2 start-instances


--instances-ids i-xxxxxxxxx
b. aws ec2 stop-instances
--instances-ids i-xxxxxxxxx
c. aws ec2 terminate-instances
--instances-ids i-xxxxxxxxx
3. To generate a new key pair
for SSH access

aws ec2 create-key-pair


--key-name MyKeyPairName
4. To create a new security group

aws ec2 create-security-group


--group-name my-sg
--description "My security group"
5. To Create an Amazon Machine
Image (AMI) from an EC2 instance.

aws ec2 create-image --instance-id


i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--name "My server" --description
"An AMI for my server"`
6. To create/delete ebs volumes

a. aws ec2 create-volume --availability-


zone ap-south-1a --size 50
--volume-type gp3`

b. aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id


vol-xxxxxxxxxxx
7. To Launch a new EC2 Instance

aws ec2 run-instances --image-id


ami-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --count 1
--instance-type t2.micro
--key-name my-key-pair
--security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxxxx

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