Aws Cli

Copying AMIs across regions is easy, but how do you copy permissions as well?

Someone recently asked about the best way to built an UI on top of the AWS APIs without hardcoding the services

I was recently looking at retrieving a VPC’s Name based on its id. Here is the Python/Boto3 implementation from boto3.session import Session session = Session(aws_access_key_id='aaaa',aws_secret_access_key='XXX',region_name='eu-west-1') ec2 = session.resource('ec2') vpc = ec2.Vpc('vpc-6661b904') vpc.tags[0]['Value'] The one liner version for AWS cli is aws ec2 describe-vpcs --vpc-ids vpc-6188b904 --query "Vpcs[0].Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value[]" --output text