AWS CLI: Delete EC2 Instance Guide

AWS CLI Commands for Deleting EC2 Instances

Tasks

• Using AWS CLI, delete an EC2 instance named nautilus-ec2 present in the us-east-1 region.

• Before submitting your task, make sure the instance is in the terminated state.

Steps

1. Get the instance ID and Stop the nautilus-ec2 instance.

    aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=nautilus-ec2" --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].InstanceId" --output text

   

   • i-04575360679a33d0b

2. Delete the EC2 Instance

    aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-04575360679a33d0b --region us-east-1

   
3. Verify the instance state is on terminated state

    aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids i-04575360679a33d0b --region us-east-1 --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].State.Name" --output text

   

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