Start your Amazon Web Services EC2 Instance with Python 3:
# Start EC2 instance
python3 start_stop_ec2.py -u
# Stop EC2 instance
python3 start_stop_ec2.py -d
If you never used Amazon Web Services with Python before, you have to install two additional modules:
pip install boto3 botocore
or
pip3 install boto3 botocore
Enter your EC2 ID in a file with the name instance_id.txt and save this file in your Users/home folder:
/Users/[username]/instance_id.txt // Windows
/Users/[username]/instance_id.txt // macOS
/home/[username]/instance_id.txt // Linux
Check your EC2 dashboard for the available IDs.
Save your AWS Credentials in your home/users folder:
Linux:
/home/[username]/.aws
macOS:
/Users/[username]/.aws
Windows:
/Users/[username]/.aws
For more information about the content of the .aws folder check the AWS documentation: Configuration and Credential Files.
Instead of creating the .aws folder manually you can use the AWS Command Line Interface:
After you've installed the AWS CLI open the PowerShell (or the Command Prompt) in Windows. In UNIX-like systems open a Shell. Then run the following command:
aws configure
Enter
- your AWS Access Key ID and
- your AWS Secret Access Key.
- As default region name enter your Availability Zone (AZ) and
- use "json" as default output format.
- 30/07/2017 - Receiving public IPv4 address
- 10/06/2018 - Added more print statements and updated
read_credentials(). The path to your "instance_id.txt" is no longer hard coded. - 29/11/2018 - Updated
parse_arguments()and added more comments