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AWS ec2-virtualization

I have a yes or no question.

I am trying to find out list of instances from our current AWS infrastructure based on their virtualization type.

ex: query to find list of instances which are pvm.

I tried using the query command and filter command. But no gains yet. Can we even query to get the virtualization type?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • ec2 describe instance list many arguments about the instance, including the virtualisation type

    virtualization-type - The virtualization type of the instance (paravirtual | hvm ).

    so you can use the following commands

    aws ec2 describe-instances \
--query 'Reservations[*].Instances[?VirtualizationType==`hvm`]'

    this will return all instances (in the specific region) where virtualisation type is hvm. You can adjust for pvm:

    aws ec2 describe-instances \
--query 'Reservations[*].Instances[?VirtualizationType==`paravirtual`]'