How do I run a python script that is located on the AWS EC2 server?

Question

I want to use python code on my computer to run a python script that is located on the server (EC2 ubuntu 18). I understand that you can use boto for this, but I didn't find a full-fledged example where it would be written here is the server, we connect to it like this, we execute the script like this.

Answer 1

You can do so by using AWS SSM or lambda function.

Refer to @mokugo-devops 's answer for AWS SSM

or Refer to this for lambda function approach

#requires paramiko package
#paramiko package is available at:
# https://github.com/pranavmalaviya2/COVID-19-Live-Data-board/tree/master/lambda%20functions/SSH_lambda-Deployment-package

import json
import boto3
import paramiko
import time

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    # boto3 client
    client = boto3.client('ec2')
    s3_client = boto3.client('s3')
    
    # getting instance information
    describeInstance = client.describe_instances()
    
    # downloading pem file from S3 
    s3_client.download_file('bucket-name','key-name.pem', '/destination/folder/new-key-name.pem')

    # reading pem file and creating key object
    key = paramiko.RSAKey.from_private_key_file("/destination/folder/new-key-name.pem")
    # an instance of the Paramiko.SSHClient
    ssh_client = paramiko.SSHClient()
    # setting policy to connect to unknown host
    ssh_client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())

    # connect using ec2 instance ID if requires
    ssh_client.connect(hostname="12.12.12.12", username="ubuntu", pkey=key)

    # command list
    commands = [
        "python script.py",
        "python script2.py",
        "aws s3 cp --recursive source/ s3://destination-bucket/",
    ]

    # executing list of commands within server
    print("Starting execution")
    for command in commands:
        print("Executing command: " + command)
        stdin , stdout, stderr = ssh_client.exec_command(command)
        print(stdout.read())
        print(stderr.read())
    
    print("finished execution")
    
    return {
        'statusCode': 200,
        'body': json.dumps('Execution Completed')
    }