Getting error while terminating the Instance using Python boto3

Question

This is the error I am getting when I am trying to terminate the instance.

botocore.exceptions.ParamValidationError: Parameter validation failed:
Invalid type for parameter InstanceIds, value: i-0bec2a0bf000bb71c, type: <class 'str'>, valid types: <class 'list'>, <class 'tuple'>

This is the code I am using

import boto3
ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
ec2.instances.filter(InstanceIds = 'i-27h087h66ikw').terminate()

Answer 1

You can visit the link here and see the answer:-

https://www.edureka.co/community/32011/how-to-delete-an-ec2-instance-using-python-boto3

The mistake that you are doing is that you have to pass the list containing the instance-id not the instance-id as string.

import boto3
ids = ['i-1','i-2','i-3','i-4','i-5']
ec2 = boto3.resource('ec2')
ec2.instances.filter(InstanceIds = ids).terminate()