AWS API and Python Boto

Quick note on connection to EC2 to list instances.

- Ensure IAM User permissions. In my case I tried EC2FullAccess.
- Ensure you have your access and secret key handy.
- This example just cycle through regions and list any instances.

import argparse
import boto.ec2

access_key = ''
secret_key = ''

def get_ec2_instances(region):
    ec2_conn = boto.ec2.connect_to_region(region,
                aws_access_key_id=access_key,
                aws_secret_access_key=secret_key)
    reservations = ec2_conn.get_all_reservations()
    for reservation in reservations:    
        print region+':',reservation.instances

    for vol in ec2_conn.get_all_volumes():
        print region+':',vol.id

def main():
    regions = ['us-east-1','us-west-1','us-west-2','eu-west-1','sa-east-1',
                'ap-southeast-1','ap-southeast-2','ap-northeast-1']
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('access_key', help='Access Key');
    parser.add_argument('secret_key', help='Secret Key');
    args = parser.parse_args()
    global access_key
    global secret_key
    access_key = args.access_key
    secret_key = args.secret_key
    
    for region in regions: get_ec2_instances(region)

if __name__ =='__main__':main()

Example:

$ python list.py myaccess_key mysecret_key
us-east-1: [Instance:i-1aac5699]
us-east-1: vol-d121290e