AWS EC2 Describe Instances to CSV

This Python script uses the AWS SDK for Python (boto3) to describe EC2 instances in a specified AWS region and output the results in CSV format to a file.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• boto3 library
• argparse library (for parsing command-line arguments)

To install the required libraries, run the following command in the terminal:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

To run the script, use the following command in the terminal:

python aws_ec2_describe_to_csv.py [--output FILENAME]

The --output option is used to specify the output filename. If not specified, the default filename output.csv will be used.

The output CSV file will have the following columns:

• Instance ID
• Tag Name
• Availability Zone
• Platform Details
• Instance Type
• State
• VPC ID
• Private IP Address
• Public IP Address

Example

To run the script and output to a file named my_output.csv, use the following command:

python aws_ec2_describe_to_csv.py --output my_output.csv

The output will be written to the my_output.csv file in the same directory as the script.