Obtaining tags from AWS instances with boto

Question

I\'m trying to obtain tags from instances in my AWS account using Python\'s boto library.

While this snippet works correctly bringing all tags:

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Answer 1

You have to be sure that the 'Name' tag exists before accessing it. Try this:

import boto.ec2
conn=boto.ec2.connect_to_region("eu-west-1")
reservations = conn.get_all_instances()
for res in reservations:
    for inst in res.instances:
        if 'Name' in inst.tags:
            print "%s (%s) [%s]" % (inst.tags['Name'], inst.id, inst.state)
        else:
            print "%s [%s]" % (inst.id, inst.state)

will print:

i-4e444444 [stopped]
Amazon Linux (i-4e333333) [running]