How to get ec2 instance state at CLI?

Question

I can see my instance with:

$ aws ec2 describe-instances --output text
RESERVATIONS    193693970645    r-06e25c9702ca1a586
INSTANCES       0       x86_64                 


        

Answer 1

The format is [InstanceId, ImageId, State.Code, State.Name], i.e.

$ aws ec2 describe-instances \
--query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId, ImageId, State.code, State.Name]" --o text

Output in this example:

i-03006b8712ac593f9     ami-00c03f7f7f2ec15c3   48    terminated