List all EC2 instance types in a region or AZ [closed]

Question

While there appear to be a few ways to output and filter some AWSCLI commands into this list, does someone have a nice+easy way to list all EC2 instance types for a specific region?

Or perhaps that list is published in a .json file up in a bucket someplace, maintained by AWS?

I'm simply looking for this sort of output:

t1.micro
t2.nano
t2.micro
t2.small
...

Answer 1

Well it seems that at least one programmatic way to do this is to query the AWS Pricing API:

#!/bin/bash

curl https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/index.json | jq -r '.products[].attributes["instanceType"]' | sort -u | grep '\.'

A gist for this is here, in case of future tweaks: https://gist.github.com/nmagee/b096e6fadf9ac336da7ffdada43f656a

What this is lacking is grouping/specifying by AWS Region, which can be an important distinction -- not every region has all instance type offerings.

Answer 2

As Far As I Know, such list is not available and cannot be queried from aws cli.

Even when running the aws ec2 run-instances, the instance-type parameter lists available instance types and refers to aws docs

Others have parsed the data and made it available.