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

You may use cli tool designed for enumerating cloud resources (cross-region and cross-accounts scan) - https://github.com/scopely-devops/skew

After short configuration you may use the following code for list all instances in all US AWS regions (assuming 123456789012 is your AWS account number).

from skew import scan

arn = scan('arn:aws:ec2:us-*:123456789012:instance/*')
for resource in arn:
    print(resource.data)