List all EC2 instance types in a region or AZ [closed]

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, this is not something you can just get out of an AWS API endpoint.

So to fill this gap, I've built a general module for dealing with this issue.

I hope this helps for a variety of use cases: https://gist.github.com/mrsiesta/0e4fac21c0eb0e8977e1de7b5277e63b

Answer 2

Well it seems that at least one programmatic way to do this is to query the AWS Pricing API:

#!/bin/bash

curl https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/index.json | jq -r '.products[].attributes["instanceType"]' | sort -u | grep '\.'

A gist for this is here, in case of future tweaks: https://gist.github.com/nmagee/b096e6fadf9ac336da7ffdada43f656a

What this is lacking is grouping/specifying by AWS Region, which can be an important distinction -- not every region has all instance type offerings.

Answer 3

As Far As I Know, such list is not available and cannot be queried from aws cli.

Even when running the aws ec2 run-instances, the instance-type parameter lists available instance types and refers to aws docs

Others have parsed the data and made it available.