How to see all running Amazon EC2 instances across all regions?

Question

I switch instances between different regions frequently and sometimes I forget to turn off my running instance from a different region. I couldn\'t find any way to see all the r

Answer 1

Based on @hansaplast code I created Windows friendly version that supports multiple profiles as an argument. Just save that file as cmd or bat file. You also need to have jq command.

@echo off 
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion

set PROFILE=%1
IF "%1"=="" (SET PROFILE=default)

echo checkin instances in all regions for %PROFILE% account
FOR /F "tokens=* USEBACKQ" %%F IN (`aws ec2 describe-regions --query Regions[*].[RegionName] --output text --profile %PROFILE%`) DO (
echo === region: %%F
aws ec2 describe-instances --region %%F --profile %PROFILE%| jq ".Reservations[].Instances[] | {type: .InstanceType, state: .State.Name, tags: .Tags, zone: .Placement.AvailabilityZone}"
)