Delete EC2 Instance via AWS CLI

AWS CLI Commands for Deleting EC2 Instances

PublishedOctober 9, 2024

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Abishek Kafle

Infosec Poet and CAP-certified DevOps/SecOps Engineer, passionate about security, creativity, and continuous learning.

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Tasks

Using AWS CLI, delete an EC2 instance named nautilus-ec2 present in the us-east-1 region.
Before submitting your task, make sure the instance is in the terminated state.

Steps

Get the instance ID and Stop the nautilus-ec2 instance.

 aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=nautilus-ec2" --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].InstanceId" --output text

i-04575360679a33d0b

Delete the EC2 Instance

 aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-04575360679a33d0b --region us-east-1

Verify the instance state is on terminated state

 aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids i-04575360679a33d0b --region us-east-1 --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].State.Name" --output text

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