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Joe C
Joe C

Reputation: 2827

How to check the underlying hardware information on an AWS EC2 box

I wanted to check the description of an EC2 instance hardware description. For example, its RAM

dmidecode shows empty infortmation

sudo dmidecode --type 17
# dmidecode 3.0
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

'lshw -c memory' does not show much details...

lshw -c memory
  *-firmware
       description: BIOS
       vendor: Amazon EC2
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.0
       date: 10/16/2017
       size: 64KiB
       capabilities: pci edd acpi virtualmachine
  *-memory
       description: System memory
       physical id: 1
       size: 68GiB

Is this because on AWS, the memory is an abstraction of some real hardware?

However, for CPU, it seems available at /proc/cpuinfo

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12153

Answers (1)

Ayushi Jain
Ayushi Jain

Reputation: 100

Here is the list of 16 commands:

https://www.binarytides.com/linux-commands-hardware-info/

You can try any to these to get the specific information you are trying to get.

Upvotes: 1

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