AWS EC2 PHP SDK - DescribeInstances With Tag Key and Value

Question

I have EC2 instances tagged with key environment and value production. I am trying to return them using the following:

$result = $ec2_client->describeInstances(array(
    "Filters" => array(
        array(
            "Name" => "tag",
            "Value" => array(
                "environment=production"
            )
        )
    )
));

The above errors out.

How do I specify this method call in the correct manner?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '15 at 16:37

1

Correct format is:

$result = $ec2_client->describeInstances(array(
    "Filters" => array(
        array(
            "Name" => "tag:environment",
            "Value" => array(
                "production"
            )
        )
    )
));

answered Jan 28 '15 at 16:37

Lloyd Banks

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Should be "Values", not "Value". Also, make sure you have no whitespace between the "tag:" and the tag name (not that Lloyd has whitespace, but I've seen other examples online with a space after the colon, and that will not work). – Jason Priebe Aug 01 '17 at 14:21
@JasonPriebe You're referring to PHP SDK V3. This solution was catered towards V2 – Lloyd Banks Aug 01 '17 at 15:41
Thanks for the clarification. – Jason Priebe Aug 01 '17 at 20:35

AWS EC2 PHP SDK - DescribeInstances With Tag Key and Value

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