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Listing all EC2 instances

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Listing all EC2 instances

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- [Instructor] It's useful to be able to get a quick reference list of all our EC2 instances. We can get a summary through AWS's config service, but let's see what we can do with the EC2 service in Python. To support this scripting, I've deployed the CloudGoat Code Build Secret Scenario and saved the credentials as scenario3. The method we'll be focusing on is the describe-instances. And we can see the format of this if we call it using the Command Line Interface. We'll use our scenario3 profile to do this. AWS EC2 describe-instances, and we'll put the profile as scenario3, and I'll set the region as us-east-1. Okay, so here we get the details of our reservations and instances in that region. In this case, we have the keyname, cg-ec2-key-pair and it's a t2.micro. I won't examine this output in detail, but if you're not familiar with EC2 JSON structures, you might want to pause here and spend a bit of time looking at it.…

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