peacengell

Use AWS CLI and jq to do some things

I'm just getting up to speed on AWS, and so I'm learning my way around the CLI. It's nice and easy to do lots of things from the CLI, like querying, creating and destroying instances and images. There are lots of fiddly bits involved in parsing output so it can be used by a script or something, though, so here are some notes.

Tools

AWS CLI

Obviously you need the AWS CLI. It's an easy install using pip. Go here to find documentation and other install methods.