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AWS CLI Display Tags

January 2, 2021

This command lists the EC2 instance id and the tag name using query.

aws ec2 describe-instances \
--query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[InstanceId,Tags[?Key==Name]|[0].Value]' \
--profile tfc \
--region us-east-2 \
--output text

aws ec2 describe-instances \ --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[InstanceId,Tags[?Key==Name]|[0].Value]' \ --profile tfc \ --region us-east-2 \ --output text

Output:

i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     server-one
i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     server-two
i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     server-three

i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx server-one i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx server-two i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx server-three

|[0].Value insures output is one instance record per line.

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