Amazon EC2 code examples for the AWS CLI with Bash script

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS Command Line Interface with Bash script to work with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

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Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

⚠ Important

• Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account. For more details, see AWS Pricing and Free Tier.
• Running the tests might result in charges to your AWS account.
• We recommend that you grant your code least privilege. At most, grant only the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant least privilege.
• This code is not tested in every AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Regional Services.

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Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the aws-cli folder.

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Basics

Code examples that show you how to perform the essential operations within a service.

• Learn the basics

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

• AllocateAddress
• AssociateAddress
• AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress
• CreateKeyPair
• CreateSecurityGroup
• DeleteKeyPair
• DeleteSecurityGroup
• DescribeImages
• DescribeInstanceTypes
• DescribeInstances
• DescribeKeyPairs
• DescribeSecurityGroups
• DisassociateAddress
• ReleaseAddress
• RunInstances
• StartInstances
• StopInstances
• TerminateInstances

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Run the examples

Instructions

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Learn the basics

This example shows you how to do the following:

• Create a key pair and security group.
• Select an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and compatible instance type, then create an instance.
• Stop and restart the instance.
• Associate an Elastic IP address with your instance.
• Connect to your instance with SSH, then clean up resources.

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Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the aws-cli folder.

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Additional resources

• Amazon EC2 User Guide
• Amazon EC2 API Reference
• AWS CLI with Bash script Amazon EC2 reference

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