How to execute commands on AWS Instance using Boto3

Question

Hi Guys,

I have launched one EC2 instance for Windows. Now I want to run some command in this instance using the boto3 module. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use the boto3 module to do this. Boto3 module has arguments named send_command. It helps you to run commands in EC2 instance.

ssm_client = boto3.client('ssm')
response = ssm_client.send_command(
            InstanceIds=['i-03#####'],
            DocumentName="AWS-RunShellScript",
            Parameters={'commands': ['start ecs']}, )

command_id = response['Command']['CommandId']
output = ssm_client.get_command_invocation(
      CommandId=command_id,
      InstanceId='i-03######',
    )
print(output)