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

Good tool to CRUD AWS resources. Find [EC2|RDS|IAM..] in all regions. There can do operations (stop|run|terminate) on filters results.

python3 awsconsole.py ec2 all // return list of all instances
python3 awsconsole.py ec2 all -r eu-west-1
python3 awsconsole.py ec2 find -i i-0552e09b7a54fa2cf --[terminate|start|stop]

Answer 2

A non-obvious GUI option is Resource Groups > Tag Editor. Here you can find all instances across all regions, even if the instances were not tagged.

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EDIT: This screen was recently redesigned and now has a new look and an "All regions" option.

Answer 3

In Console

Go to VPC dashboard https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home and click on Running instances -> See all regions.

In CLI

Add this for example to .bashrc. Reload it source ~/.bashrc, and run it

Note: Except for aws CLI you need to have jq installed

function aws.print-all-instances() {
  REGIONS=`aws ec2 describe-regions --region us-east-1 --output text --query Regions[*].[RegionName]`
  for REGION in $REGIONS
  do
    echo -e "\nInstances in '$REGION'..";
    aws ec2 describe-instances --region $REGION | \
      jq '.Reservations[].Instances[] | "EC2: \(.InstanceId): \(.State.Name)"'
  done
}

Example output:

$ aws.print-all-instances 

Listing Instances in region: 'eu-north-1'..
"EC2: i-0548d1de00c39f923: terminated"
"EC2: i-0fadd093234a1c21d: running"

Listing Instances in region: 'ap-south-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'eu-west-3'..

Listing Instances in region: 'eu-west-2'..

Listing Instances in region: 'eu-west-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'ap-northeast-2'..

Listing Instances in region: 'ap-northeast-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'sa-east-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'ca-central-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'ap-southeast-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'ap-southeast-2'..

Listing Instances in region: 'eu-central-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'us-east-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'us-east-2'..

Listing Instances in region: 'us-west-1'..

Listing Instances in region: 'us-west-2'..

Answer 4

I created an open-source script that helps you to list all AWS instances. https://github.com/Appnroll/aws-ec2-instances

That's a part of the script that lists the instances for one profile recording them into an postgreSQL database with using jq for json parsing:

DATABASE="aws_instances"
TABLE_NAME="aws_ec2"
SAVED_FIELDS="state, name, type, instance_id, public_ip, launch_time, region, profile, publicdnsname"
# collects the regions to display them in the end of script
REGIONS_WITH_INSTANCES=""

for region in `aws ec2 describe-regions --output text | cut -f3`
do
   # this mappping depends on describe-instances command output
   INSTANCE_ATTRIBUTES="{
        state: .State.Name,
        name: .KeyName, type: .InstanceType,
        instance_id: .InstanceId,
        public_ip: .NetworkInterfaces[0].Association.PublicIp,
        launch_time: .LaunchTime,
        \"region\": \"$region\",
        \"profile\": \"$AWS_PROFILE\",
        publicdnsname: .PublicDnsName
   }"

   echo -e "\nListing AWS EC2 Instances in region:'$region'..."
   JSON=".Reservations[] | ( .Instances[] | $INSTANCE_ATTRIBUTES)"
   INSTANCE_JSON=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region)

   if echo $INSTANCE_JSON | jq empty; then
      # "Parsed JSON successfully and got something other than false/null"
      OUT="$(echo $INSTANCE_JSON | jq $JSON)"

      # check if empty
      if [[ ! -z "$OUT" ]] then
        for row in $(echo "${OUT}" | jq -c "." ); do
          psql -c "INSERT INTO $TABLE_NAME($SAVED_FIELDS) SELECT $SAVED_FIELDS from json_populate_record(NULL::$TABLE_NAME, '${row}') ON CONFLICT (instance_id)
            DO UPDATE
            SET state = EXCLUDED.state,
            name = EXCLUDED.name,
            type = EXCLUDED.type,
            launch_time = EXCLUDED.launch_time,
            public_ip = EXCLUDED.public_ip,
            profile = EXCLUDED.profile,
            region = EXCLUDED.region,
            publicdnsname = EXCLUDED.publicdnsname
            " -d $DATABASE
        done

        REGIONS_WITH_INSTANCES+="\n$region"
      else
        echo "No instances"
      fi
   else
        echo "Failed to parse JSON, or got false/null"
   fi
done

Answer 5

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}"
)