aws is a command line interface (CLI) to the console of AWS.
List of regions
aws ec2 describe-regions
aws ec2 describe-regions --output text
aws ec2 describe-regions --query "Regions[*].RegionName" --output text
List of a given tag in a single region
we use the eu-central-1 region here (which is Frankfurt) looking for the values of the "role" tag in every instance.
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-central-1 --output text
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-central-1 --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[Tags[?Key=='role'].Value]" --output text
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-central-1 --filters "Name=tag:Role,Values=Production" --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[ImageId,Tags[*]]"
List of a given tag in every region
(for n in $(aws ec2 describe-regions --query "Regions[*].RegionName" --output text); do aws ec2
describe-instances --region $n --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[Tags[?Key=='role'].Value]" --output text; done) | sort | uniq
Add / remove tags
aws ec2 create-tags --region ap-south-1 --resources i-09c456eacadkahu --tags Key=owner,Value=foobar
aws ec2 delete-tags --region ap-south-1 --resources i-09c456eacadkahdkas --tags Key=Owner
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-central-1 --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value,InstanceId,State.Name]"
