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Jorge Castro
Asked: 2012-01-12 06:14:07 +0800 CST

How do I get a list of Amazon regions via the command line?

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I'd like to see how I can get a list of regions from AWS on the command line so I can quickly look things up, how can I do this?

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3 Answers

  1. This is now how you'd do it using the aws cli:

    $ aws ec2 describe-regions --output table
----------------------------------------------------------
|                     DescribeRegions                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
||                        Regions                       ||
|+-----------------------------------+------------------+|
||             Endpoint              |   RegionName     ||
|+-----------------------------------+------------------+|
||  ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com      |  eu-west-1       ||
||  ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com |  ap-southeast-1  ||
||  ec2.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com |  ap-southeast-2  ||
||  ec2.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com   |  eu-central-1    ||
||  ec2.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com |  ap-northeast-2  ||
||  ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com |  ap-northeast-1  ||
||  ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com      |  us-east-1       ||
||  ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com      |  sa-east-1       ||
||  ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com      |  us-west-1       ||
||  ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com      |  us-west-2       ||
|+-----------------------------------+------------------+|
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  2. Best Answer

    You can do this by running the command ec2-describe-regions from the command line (if you have ec2-api-tools installed available in multiverse).

    $ ec2-describe-regions
REGION  eu-west-1   ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
REGION  sa-east-1   ec2.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com
REGION  us-east-1   ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
REGION  ap-northeast-1  ec2.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com
REGION  us-west-2   ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
REGION  us-west-1   ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
REGION  ap-southeast-1  ec2.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
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  3. Botocore would have all of them in configured endpoints:

    $ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boto/botocore/develop/botocore/data/endpoints.json | grep -B1 desc|grep {|cut -d \" -f2

    Your AWS CLI installation may have it locally; In this example, I get at it with python:

    $ python3 << :]
> #!/usr/bin/env python3.7
> 
> import botocore, json
> from pathlib import Path
>  
> with open("{}/{}".format(Path(botocore.__file__).resolve().parent, "data/endpoints.json"), 'r') as e:
>     for p in json.load(e)['partitions']:
>         print("{}:\t\t{}".format(p['partitionName']," ".join(p['regions'].keys())))
> :]
AWS Standard:           af-south-1 ap-east-1 ap-northeast-1 ap-northeast-2 ap-northeast-3 ap-south-1 ap-southeast-1 ap-southeast-2 ap-southeast-3 ca-central-1 eu-central-1 eu-north-1 eu-south-1 eu-west-1 eu-west-2 eu-west-3 me-south-1 sa-east-1 us-east-1 us-east-2 us-west-1 us-west-2
AWS China:              cn-north-1 cn-northwest-1
AWS GovCloud (US):              us-gov-east-1 us-gov-west-1
AWS ISO (US):           us-iso-east-1 us-iso-west-1
AWS ISOB (US):          us-isob-east-1
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