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ec2-terminate-instances
Description
Shuts down one or more instances. This operation is idempotent; if you terminate an instance more than once, each call succeeds.
Terminated instances will remain visible after termination (approximately one hour).
Note
By default, Amazon EC2 deletes all Amazon EBS volumes that were attached when the instance launched. Amazon EBS volumes attached after instance launch persist.
You can stop, start, and terminate EBS-backed instances. You can only terminate S3-backed instances. What happens to an instance differs if you stop it or terminate it. For example, when you stop an instance, the root device and any other devices attached to the instance persist. When you terminate an instance, the root device and any other devices attached during the instance launch are automatically deleted. For more information about the differences between stopping and terminating instances, see Stopping Instances in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide
The short version of this command is ec2kill.
Syntax
ec2-terminate-instances
instance_id [instance_id
...]
Options
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The IDs of instances to terminate. Type: String Default: None Required: Yes Example: i-43a4412a |
Common Options
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Overrides the region specified by the Default: The value of the Example: |
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The uniform resource locator (URL) of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The private key that identifies you to Amazon EC2. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate that identifies you to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The access key ID associated with your AWS account. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are. Default: The value of the Example: Note For more information, see the following section, Deprecated Options. |
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The secret access key associated with your AWS account. Default: The value of the Example: Note For more information, see the following section, Deprecated Options. |
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The AWS delegation token. Default: The value of the environment variable (if set). |
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The connection timeout, in seconds. Example: |
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The request timeout, in seconds. Example: |
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Displays verbose output, including the API request and response on the command line. This is useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our Query API. |
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Includes column headers in the command output. |
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Shows empty columns as |
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Omits tags for tagged resources. |
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Displays internal debugging information. This can assist us when helping you troubleshooting problems. |
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Displays usage information for the command. |
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Reads arguments from standard input. This is useful when piping the output from one command to the input of another. Example: |
Deprecated Options
For a limited time, you can still use the private key and X.509 certificate instead of your access key ID and secret access key. However, we recommend that you start using your access key ID (-O, --aws-access-key) and secret access key (-W, --aws-secret-key) now, as the private key (-K, --private-key) and X.509 certificate (-C, --cert) won't be supported after the transition period elapses. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are.
| Option | Description |
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The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
Output
This command returns a table that contains the following information:
The INSTANCE identifier
The instance ID of the instance being terminated
The state of the instance prior to being terminated
The new state of the instance
Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.
Examples
Example Request
This example terminates the i-1a2b3c4d instance.
PROMPT>ec2-terminate-instances i-1a2b3c4dINSTANCE i-1a2b3c4d running shutting-down
