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Creating an EC2 Instance: Overview

Creating an EC2 Instance: Overview

Get an overview of all CLI parameters related to creating EC2 instances.

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In the next lessons, we will learn about the most important options available to configure EC2 instances, through both the AWS console and the AWS CLI. For better understanding, we’ll see the configuration side by side so we can relate CLI options to their graphical equivalents in the AWS console.

In this chapter, we will learn about the aws ec2 run-instance command. The equivalent within the AWS console is the EC2 “Launch instance” wizard that we can find on the dashboard or in the sidebar under “Instances.”

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Launch instance wizard on the EC2 Dashboard
Launch instance wizard on the EC2 Dashboard

The CLI options of the run-instance command

We can find all run-instance CLI options in the AWS CLI documentation under Synopsis.

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aws ec2 run-instances
>[--block-device-mappings <value>]
>[--image-id <value>]
>[--instance-type <value>]
[--ipv6-address-count <value>]
[--ipv6-addresses <value>]
[--kernel-id <value>]
>[--key-name <value>]
>[--monitoring <value>]
>[--placement <value>]
[--ramdisk-id <value>]
>[--security-group-ids <value>]
>[--security-groups <value>]
>[--subnet-id <value>]
>[--user-data <value>]
[--additional-info <value>]
[--client-token <value>]
>[--disable-api-termination | --enable-api-termination]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
>[--ebs-optimized | --no-ebs-optimized]
>[--iam-instance-profile <value>]
>[--instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior <value>]
>[--network-interfaces <value>]
>[--private-ip-address <value>]
[--elastic-gpu-specification <value>]
[--elastic-inference-accelerators <value>]
>[--tag-specifications <value>]
>[--launch-template <value>]
>[--instance-market-options <value>]
>[--credit-specification <value>]
>[--cpu-options <value>]
[--capacity-reservation-specification <value>]
>[--hibernation-options <value>]
[--license-specifications <value>]
[--metadata-options <value>]
[--enclave-options <value>]
>[--count <value>]
[--secondary-private-ip-addresses <value>]
[--secondary-private-ip-address-count <value>]
[--associate-public-ip-address | --no-associate-public-ip-address]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

We’ll learn about all marked (>) options above. All others are advanced or rarely used options that we won’t cover in depth. In the unlikely event that you ...