aws ec2

Manage AWS EC2 instances and volumes. AWS EC2 provides secure and resizable computing capacity in the AWS cloud for faster development and deployment of applications. More information: https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/ec2/index.html.

• Display information about a specific instance:

aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids instance_id

• Display information about all instances:

aws ec2 describe-instances

• Display information about all EC2 volumes:

aws ec2 describe-volumes

• Delete an EC2 volume:

aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id volume_id

• Create a snapshot from an EC2 volume:

aws ec2 create-snapshot --volume-id volume_id

• List available AMIs (Amazon Machine Images):

aws ec2 describe-images

• Show list of all available EC2 commands:

aws ec2 help

• Display help for specific EC2 subcommand:

aws ec2 subcommand help