Use powershell to get instance description and tags

Question

Is there a way of getting instance's description (eg, instance ID, AMI ID, VPC ID....etc) and tags using Powershell?

I tried Get-EC2Instance | select * but it doesn't give all the information I need.

Jan Chrbolka · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-26 05:03:22Z

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Good starting point would be to store your instances in a variable.

$ec2 = Get-EC2Instance
$ec2.instances

will display all the info you can get.

Same can be done like this

(Get-EC2Instance).Instances

or filter only what you need.

(Get-EC2Instance).Instances | select-object ImageId,InstanceId,VpcId

answered May 26, 2015 at 5:03

Jan Chrbolka

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