ec2-terminate-instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2007-08-29

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ec2-terminate-instances

Syntax

ec2-terminate-instances instance_id [instance_id ...]

Description

Terminates the specified instances.

Options

Option Description Required

instance_id

ID of the instance that was assigned at lauch.

Example: i-3ea74257

Yes

Output

Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:

  • Output type identifier ("INSTANCE")

  • The instance ID of the instance being terminated.

  • The state of the instance prior to being terminated.

  • The new state of the instance.

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example terminates the i-3ea74257 instance:

$ ec2-terminate-instances i-3ea74257
INSTANCE i-3ea74257 running shutting-down

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