Displaying EC2 Instance name using Boto 3
Solution 1
There may be other ways. But from your code point of view, the following should work.
>>> for i in vpc.instances.all():
... for tag in i.tags:
... if tag['Key'] == 'Name':
... print tag['Value']
One liner solution if you want to use Python's powerful list comprehension:
inst_names = [tag['Value'] for i in vpc.instances.all() for tag in i.tags if tag['Key'] == 'Name']
print inst_names
Solution 2
In AWS EC2 an instance is tagged with a Name tag.
In order to get the value of the Name tag for a given instance, you need to query the instance for that tag:
See Obtaining tags from AWS instances with boto
Liondancer
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Updated on October 03, 2020Comments
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Liondancer over 3 years
I'm not sure how to display the name of my instance in AWS EC2 using
boto3
This is some of the code I have:
import boto3 ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2', region_name='us-west-2') vpc = ec2.Vpc("vpc-21c15555") for i in vpc.instances.all(): print(i)
What I get in return is
... ... ... ec2.Instance(id='i-d77ed20c')
I can change
i
to bei.id
ori.instance_type
but when I tryname
I get:AttributeError: 'ec2.Instance' object has no attribute 'name'
What is the correct way to get the instance name?