Cheatsheet - aws cli

EC2 Instances

  • start: aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • stop: aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • resize: aws opsworks --region us-east-1 update-instance --instance-id dfe18b02-5327-493d-91a4-c5c0c448927f --instance-type c3.xlarge

EBS Volumes

  • change size: aws ec2 modify-volume --size xx(desired size) --volume-id vol-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • change type, size, IOPS aws ec2 modify-volume \ --volume-type io1 \ --iops 10000 \ --size 350 \ --volume-id vol-1234567890abcdef0