Issues trying to SSH into a fresh EC2 instance with Paramiko

Question

I\'m working on a script that spins up a fresh EC2 instance with boto and uses the Paramiko SSH client to execute remote commands on the instance. For whatever reason, the Param

Answer 1

The way to check it's ssh available is to make sure its two status checks both passes. On web UI it looks like this:

And using boto3 (the original question used boto but it was 5 years ago), we can do:

session = boto3.Session(...)
client = session.client('ec2')
res = client.run_instances(...) # launch instance
instance_id = res['Instances'][0]['InstanceId']

while True:
    statuses = client.describe_instance_status(InstanceIds=[instance_id])
    status = statuses['InstanceStatuses'][0]
    if status['InstanceStatus']['Status'] == 'ok' \
            and status['SystemStatus']['Status'] == 'ok':
        break
    print '.'
    time.sleep(5)
print "Instance is running, you are ready to ssh to it"