how to specify multiple 'Tag' while creating AWS Spot Instances

Question

I am using AWS SDK for python to create AWS spot instances, but not getting on how can I specify multiple key-value name pait which will eventually get reflected under 'Tags' section of the created VM. According to the below API documentation, keyName is the name if the key pair , and I am not sure whether this is related to Tags or not.

https://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/ec2.html#EC2.Client.request_spot_instances

Answer 1

You can not define tags through request_spot_instances. You need to either use create_tags after the spot instance request is created or create a Launch template with tags defined in them and then create a spot instance fleet request to have tags.

References:

• Tagging spot instance requests
• Tagging support at launch time using CLI/SDK/API
• Create Launch template
• Request spot fleet
• Create tags boto3 reference