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

For boto3 you will need to do this.

import boto3
ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
vpc = ec2.Vpc('')
instance_iterator = vpc.instances.all()

for instance in instance_iterator:
    for tag in instance.tags:
        print('Found instance id: ' + instance.id + '\ntag: ' + tag)