How to launch and access an instance using AWS-CLI

Question

How can i launch an EC2 instance using AWS-CLI?

Answer 1

Yes you can launch and access an ec2 instance using aws-cli.

You have to configure your IAM user using AWS-CLI

then you need to run the following commands given here in the documentation.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/tutorial-ec2-ubuntu.html#launch-and-connect

Answer 2

aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-id --key-name yourkeyname --instance-type t2.micro --region us-east-1 --subnet-id your-subnet-id --count 1
Use this command and you can create an EC2 instance. To access it you will need either putty or a cli tool like cmder.