EC2: Waiting until a new instance is in running state

Question

I would like to create a new instance based on my stored AMI.

I achieve this by the following code:

RunInstancesRequest rir = new RunInstancesRequest(ima         


        

Answer 1

boto3 has:

instance.wait_until_running()

From the boto3 docs:

Waits until this Instance is running. This method calls EC2.Waiter.instance_running.wait() which polls EC2.Client.describe_instances() every 15 seconds until a successful state is reached. An error is returned after 40 failed checks.