How to get list of EC2 instances with Amazon PHP SDK 2?

Question

How to get list of Amazon EC2 instances matching some filters using AWS SDK for PHP 2?

Answer 1

With purpose to get list of PublicDnsName you can use this code:

use Aws\Ec2\Ec2Client;

$ec2 = Ec2Client::factory($config);
$args = [
    'Filters' => [
        ['Name' => 'tag:Name', 'Values' => ['*{{your-tag}}*']],
    ]
];
$data = $ec2->DescribeInstances($args)->toArray();
$instances = [];
array_walk_recursive($data, function ($value, $key) use (&$instances) {
    if ($key === 'PublicDnsName') {
        $instances[$value] = true;
    }
});
var_export($instances);

You will receive something like this:

array (
  'ec2-*-*-*-*.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' => true,
  'ec2-*-*-*-*.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' => true,
  'ec2-*-*-*-*.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' => true,
  'ec2-*-*-*-*.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' => true,
  'ec2-*-*-*-*.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' => true,
  'ec2-*-*-*-*.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com' => true,
)