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I have been standing up quite a bit of infrastructure in AWS lately using the AWS CLI. Here are some commands that I found helpful in a cheat sheet format. I'll show you how to create resources, query resources for information and how to update resources. Hopefully this will get you started quickly. The cheat sheet covers the following topics:

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• Setting up your environment.
• Working with Virtual Private Clouds (VPC).
• Working with Identity and Access Management (IAM).
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# Count total EBS based storage in AWS

aws ec2 describe-volumes | jq '[.Volumes[].Size] | add'

# Count total EBS storage with a tag filter

aws ec2 describe-volumes --filters 'Name=tag:Name,Values=CloudEndure Volume qjenc' | jq '[.Volumes[].Size] | add'

# Describe instances concisely

aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | {InstanceId: .InstanceId, State: .State, SubnetId: .SubnetId, VpcId: .VpcId, Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key'Name')|.Value)}]'

# Wait until $instance_id is running and then immediately stop it again

aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-id $instance_id && aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-id $instance_id

# Get 10th instance in the account

aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[]] | .[10]'

# List the private IP addresses of all instances

aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | .PrivateIpAddress] | sort'

# Do that, but only on non-terminated instances

aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | select(.State.Name!='terminated') | {Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key'Name')|.Value), PrivateIp: .PrivateIpAddress}]'

# JQ export to csv command / suffix

export_csv_suffix='| map([.Name, .PrivateIp] | join(',')) | join('n')'

# Get all production instances

instance_ids=$(aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | select(.State.Name!='terminated') | select((.Tags[]|select(.Key'Environment')|.Value) 'prod') | {Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key'Name')|.Value), InstanceId: .InstanceId}]' | jq '.[] | .InstanceId')

# Add a backup tag to those instances

echo $instance_ids | sed 's/'//g' | grep i- | parallel --delay 3 aws ec2 create-tags --resources {} --tags Key=Backup,Value=PolicyA

# Attach multiple new ebs volumes to an instance

instance_id='i-0d42888191f597bb8'

volume_size='8'

for x in {a..h}

do

volume_id=$(aws ec2 create-volume --size $volume_size --volume-type gp2 --availability-zone eu-west-1a | jq -r '.VolumeId')

aws ec2 wait volume-available --volume-ids $volume_id

aws ec2 attach-volume --volume-id $volume_id --instance-id $instance_id --device /dev/xvd$x

done

# Produce a summary of instances

jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | select(.State.Name!='terminated') | {Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key'Name')|.Value), InstanceId: .InstanceId}]'

# Check instances for ones which are missing required tags

instances=$(cat './scripts/prod-instances.json')

required_tags='['Environment','Backup','Owner','AppName','Name']'

echo $instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | select(.Tags | [.[] | .Key] | contains($required_tags) | not)]' | jq '

[.[] | select(.State.Name!='terminated') | select(([.Tags | .[] | .Key]) | contains(['CloudEndure creation time']) | not) | {

InstanceId: .InstanceId,

InstanceName: (.Tags | from_entries | .Name),

MissingTags: (('$required_tags') - ([.Tags | .[] | .Key]))

}]'

# Get the 'Live & Tagged' instances

instances=$(aws ec2 describe-instances)

live=$(echo $instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | select(.Tags | [.[] | .Key] | contains($required_tags))]')

# Enable termination protection from a list of instances stored in $list

echo $live | jq -r '.[] | .InstanceId' | while read id

do

echo 'Enabling termination proection on machine: $id'

aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --disable-api-termination --instance-id $id

done

# Attach unused EBS Volumes to an instance

instance_id='i-abcd1234'

letters=({a..j})

volumes=$(aws ec2 describe-volumes | jq -r '.Volumes[] | select(.State'available') | .VolumeId')

lc=1

echo $volumes | while read id

do

echo 'Attaching volume on: $id'

aws ec2 attach-volume --instance-id $instance_id --volume-id $id --device /dev/sd${letters[++lc]}

done

# Detach and delete secondary volumes on a machine

aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | jq -r '.Reservations[0].Instances[0].BlockDeviceMappings | .[] | select(.DeviceName != '/dev/sda1') | .Ebs.VolumeId' | while read volume_id

do

aws ec2 detach-volume --volume-id $volume_id &&

aws ec2 wait volume-available --volume-ids $volume_id &&

aws ec2 delete-volume --volume-id $volume_id

done

# Copy everything from an account into an OSX clipboard

aws ec2 describe-volumes | jq '[.Volumes[] | select(.State'available') | .VolumeId]' | pbcopy

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