positional arguments:¶

INSTANCE

ID of the instance to modify (required)

optional arguments:¶

-b DEVICE=::(true|false), --block-device-mapping DEVICE=::(true|false)

change whether a volume attached to the instance will be deleted upon the instance's termination

--disable-api-termination {true,false}

change whether or not the instance may be terminated

--ebs-optimized {true,false}

change whether or not the instance should be optimized for EBS I/O

-g GROUP, --group-id GROUP

[VPC only] Change the security group(s) the instance is in

--instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior {stop,terminate}

whether to stop or terminate the EBS instance when it shuts down (instance-store instances are always terminated)

-t INSTANCETYPE, --instance-type INSTANCETYPE

change the instance's type

--kernel IMAGE

change the instance's kernel image

--ramdisk IMAGE

change the instance's ramdisk image

--source-dest-check {true,false}

change whether source/destination address checking is enabled

--sriov simple

enable enhanced networking for the instance and its descendants

--user-data DATA

change the instance's user data (must be base64-encoded)

--user-data-file FILE

change the instance's user data to the contents of a file

--show-empty-fields

show empty values as "(nil)"

-U URL, --url URL

compute service endpoint URL

--region USER@REGION

region and/or user names to search when looking up config file data

-I KEY_ID, --access-key-id KEY_ID

-S KEY, --secret-key KEY

--security-token TOKEN

--debug

show debugging output

--debugger

launch interactive debugger on error

--version

show the program's version and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit