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Open a terminal/ssh session on each ec2 instance available in your AWS region with this oneliner
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open_terminals_linux.sh
#!/bin/bash
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-west-1 --filter Name=tag:Name,Values=InstanceName --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].PrivateIpAddress' --output text | xargs -I {} gnome-terminal -x ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i ~/my_keys/my-private-key.pem -o IdentitiesOnly=yes cloud-user@{}
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open_terminals_osx.sh
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-west-1 --output text --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].PublicIpAddress' | xargs -I {} osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i ~/my_keys/my-private-key.pem -o IdentitiesOnly=yes cloud-user@{}"'
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open_terminals_ssm_osx.sh
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-west-1 --output text --query 'Reservations[].Instances[*].InstanceId' --filters Name=instance-state-name,Values=running | xargs -L 1 -I {} osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "aws ssm start-session --target {}"'
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zimmdi commented Jun 4, 2020

Maybe remove dependency to jq
aws ec2 describe-instances --region eu-west-1 --query "Reservations[].Instances[].PrivateIpAddress" --output text

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katzefudder commented Jun 4, 2020 •
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nice catch, thanks!
jq removed

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