Print degraded instances

amzn-degraded-instances.py

import sys
from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection
from boto.exception import BotoServerError

AMZN_ACCESS_KEY = ""
AMZN_SECRET_KEY = ""

maintenance_instances = []

""" Get EC2 connection """
try:
    ec2 = EC2Connection(AMZN_ACCESS_KEY, AMZN_SECRET_KEY)

    """ Get list of instances which require maintenance """
    statuses = ec2.get_all_instance_status()

except BotoServerError:
    print "Failed to communicate with EC2 (%s)" % BotoServerError

for status in statuses:
    if status.events:
        event = status.events[0]

        if "[Completed]" not in event.description:
            maintenance_instances.append({"Event":event.code,
                "Description":event.description, "Instance ID":status.id})

print maintenance_instances