AWS CLI create ec2 instance UnicodeEncodeError

Question

I am trying to create a new EC2 instance with the AWS console tools using this command:

aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-9abea4fb --count 1 –-instance-type t2.micro --key-name my_key_name --security-group-ids my_rule --region us-west-2

But I keep getting this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/aws", line 27, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/bin/aws", line 23, in main
    return awscli.clidriver.main()
  File "/Users/davesmith/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 56, in main
    return driver.main()
  File "/Users/davesmith/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 203, in main
    sys.stderr.write(str(e))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2013' in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

Jim K. · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-10 16:16:34Z

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The first - in your --instance-type parameter is some sort of unicode dash. Fonts can obscure this, but it worked when I manually edited it to be a minus-sign instead.

answered Jul 10, 2017 at 16:16

Jim K.

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Anthony Neace Over a year ago

Agree, looks like em-dash. This can happen automatically in some text editors when you type two dashes, it consolidates them into an em-dash.

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