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Brian
Brian

Reputation: 13571

aws sdk ec2.describeInstances not listing all EC2 instances

I'm using aws-sdk to list all the running EC2 instances whose IAM Role is The_Name_of_My_IAM_Role.

const AWS = require('aws-sdk')

let credentials = new AWS.SharedIniFileCredentials({
  profile: 'my_profile'
})
AWS.config.credentials = credentials
AWS.config.update({
  region: 'ap-northeast-1'
})

const ec2 = new AWS.EC2()

let params = {
  Filters: [
    {
      Name: 'iam-instance-profile.arn',
      Values: [`arn:aws:iam::123456789123:instance-profile/The_Name_of_My_IAM_Role`]
    },
    {
      Name: 'instance-state-name',
      Values: ['running']
    }
  ]
}
ec2.describeInstances(params, (err, data) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log(`describeInstances error: ${err}`)
  } else {
    console.log(`data.Reservations.length: ${data.Reservations.length}`)
  }
})

I expect the code to return 6 EC2 instances. But it returns only 4 of them.

The problem doesn't occur if I type aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=iam-instance-profile.arn,Values=arn:aws:iam::123456789123:instance-profile/The_Name_of_IAM_Role" "Name=instance-state-name,Values=running" command in my terminal.

I mean aws ec2 describe-instances ... command returns all 6 EC2 instances.

I've set the following environment variables before running aws ec2 describe-instances ... command.

export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=ap-northeast-1
export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=my_profile

I also have my_profile defined in ~/.aws/credentials file.

What might be wrong my node.js code?

Or is this a bug of aws-sdk?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2275

Answers (2)

warch
warch

Reputation: 2599

Here is a shell script (using aws-cli) to loop through all regions and display all ec2 instances within a table: 

for region in $(aws ec2 describe-regions --query 'Regions[*].RegionName' --output text); do
   echo "Region: $region"
   aws ec2 describe-instances --region $region --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].{name: Tags[?Key=='Name'] | [0].Value, instance_id: InstanceId, ip_address: PrivateIpAddress, state: State.Name}" --output table
done

there should be the same methods for node.js

Upvotes: 1

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269322

Please note that Reservations contain Instances.

When multiple instances are launched via one command (eg launching two identical instances in the console), then both instances are part of a single Reservation.

Your code is counting the number of Reservations, but you are actually expecting the count to include the number of instances in all Reservations.

Solution: Loop through the reservations and add up the number of instances in each Reservation.

Upvotes: 3

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