AWS CLI EC2 Describe Tags August 26, 2019 Here’s how to get a list of EC2 tags. aws ec2 describe-tags \ --filters "Name=resource-id,Values=i-xxxxxxxxxxxxx" \ --query 'Tags[][Key,Value]' \ --profile default \ --region us-east-1 \ --output textaws ec2 describe-tags \ --filters "Name=resource-id,Values=i-xxxxxxxxxxxxx" \ --query 'Tags[][Key,Value]' \ --profile default \ --region us-east-1 \ --output text