How to create an ec2 instance using boto3

Question

Is it possible to create an ec2 instance using boto3 in python? Boto3 document is not helping here, and I couldn't find any helping documents online. please provide some sample codes/links.

Answer 1

The API has changed but it's right there in the documentation

# Boto 3 ec2.create_instances(ImageId='<ami-image-id>', MinCount=1, MaxCount=5) 

Link to the documentation: http://boto3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/migrationec2.html#launching-new-instances

Answer 2

You can run the code I used from the boto3 docs. You can add or remove parameters as per your requirements, but this is what you would normally require:

import boto3  client = boto3.client('ec2', region_name='us-west-2')  response = client.run_instances(     BlockDeviceMappings=[         {             'DeviceName': '/dev/xvda',             'Ebs': {                  'DeleteOnTermination': True,                 'VolumeSize': 8,                 'VolumeType': 'gp2'             },         },     ],     ImageId='ami-6cd6f714',     InstanceType='t3.micro',     MaxCount=1,     MinCount=1,     Monitoring={         'Enabled': False     },     SecurityGroupIds=[         'sg-1f39854x',     ], )