Some more human controls for boto3

aws_control.py

import boto3

def get_id_from_name(name):
    description = [instance for r in response['Reservations'] for instance in r['Instances'] for tag in instance['Tags'] if tag['Key'] == 'Name' if tag['Value'] == name]
    return description['InstanceId']

def start_instance_by_name(name):
    ec2 = boto3.client('ec2')
    instance_id = get_id_from_name(name)
    # Do a dryrun first to verify permissions
    try:
        ec2.start_instances(InstanceIds=[instance_id], DryRun=True)
    except ClientError as e:
        if 'DryRunOperation' not in str(e):
            raise

    # Dry run succeeded, run start_instances without dryrun
    try:
        response = ec2.start_instances(InstanceIds=[instance_id], DryRun=False)
        print(response)
    except ClientError as e:
        print(e)

def stop_instances_by_name(name):
    ec2 = boto3.client('ec2')
    instance_id = get_id_from_name(name)
    # Do a dryrun first to verify permissions
    try:
        ec2.stop_instances(InstanceIds=[instance_id], DryRun=True)
    except ClientError as e:
        if 'DryRunOperation' not in str(e):
            raise

    # Dry run succeeded, call stop_instances witout dryrun
    try:
        response = ec2.stop_instances(InstanceIds=[instance_id], DryRun=False)
        print(response)
    except ClientError as e:
        print(e)