ec2-fuzzysearch

This is a simple CLI that searches for EC2 instances in your AWS account using the Name Tag. It utilizes the AWS SDK for Go to retrieve the list of instances that has Name tags, then applies fuzzy search to help you find the instance you are looking for.

Installation

brew tap mickeey2525/ec2-fuzzysearch https://github.com/mickeey2525/ec2-fuzzysearch
brew install ec2-fuzzysearch

Usage

You need to have aws cli installed and configured. Also, you need to export AWS_REGION and related AWS credentials to use this script. i.e.

export AWS_REGION=us-west-2
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

or you can use aws profile for sso users. i.e.

export AWS_PROFILE=sso

Then you can run the following command to search for the instances.

ec2-fuzzysearch -p <profile> -r <region>

Then you can start typing the instance name you are looking for and it will show you the fuzzy search results.