Displaying EC2 Instance name using Boto 3

Question

I'm not sure how to display the name of my instance in AWS EC2 using boto3

This is some of the code I have:

import boto3  ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2', region_name='us-west-2') vpc = ec2.Vpc("vpc-21c15555") for i in vpc.instances.all():     print(i) 

What I get in return is

... ... ... ec2.Instance(id='i-d77ed20c') 

I can change i to be i.id or i.instance_type but when I try name I get:

AttributeError: 'ec2.Instance' object has no attribute 'name'

What is the correct way to get the instance name?

Answer 1

There may be other ways. But from your code point of view, the following should work.

>>> for i in vpc.instances.all(): ...   for tag in i.tags: ...     if tag['Key'] == 'Name': ...       print tag['Value'] 

One liner solution if you want to use Python's powerful list comprehension:

inst_names = [tag['Value'] for i in vpc.instances.all() for tag in i.tags if tag['Key'] == 'Name'] print inst_names