[ aws . ec2 ]

describe-key-pairs

Description

Describes the specified key pairs or all of your key pairs.

For more information about key pairs, see Key Pairs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  describe-key-pairs
[--filters <value>]
[--key-names <value>]
[--key-pair-ids <value>]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--filters (list)

The filters.

• key-pair-id - The ID of the key pair.

• fingerprint - The fingerprint of the key pair.

• key-name - The name of the key pair.

• tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.

• tag :<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA , specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

(structure)

A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs. The filters supported by a describe operation are documented with the describe operation. For example:

• DescribeAvailabilityZones

• DescribeImages

• DescribeInstances

• DescribeKeyPairs

• DescribeSecurityGroups

• DescribeSnapshots

• DescribeSubnets

• DescribeTags

• DescribeVolumes

• DescribeVpcs

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Values -> (list)

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--key-names (list)

The key pair names.

Default: Describes all your key pairs.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--key-pair-ids (list)

The IDs of the key pairs.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To display a key pair

This example displays the fingerprint for the key pair named MyKeyPair.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-key-pairs --key-name MyKeyPair

Output:

{
    "KeyPairs": [
        {
            "KeyName": "MyKeyPair",
            "KeyFingerprint": "1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Using Key Pairs in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Output

KeyPairs -> (list)

Information about the key pairs.

(structure)

Describes a key pair.

KeyPairId -> (string)

The ID of the key pair.

KeyFingerprint -> (string)

If you used CreateKeyPair to create the key pair, this is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key. If you used ImportKeyPair to provide AWS the public key, this is the MD5 public key fingerprint as specified in section 4 of RFC4716.

KeyName -> (string)

The name of the key pair.

Tags -> (list)

Any tags applied to the key pair.

(structure)

Describes a tag.

Key -> (string)

The key of the tag.

Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .

Value -> (string)

The value of the tag.

Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.