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AWS CLI EC2 Cheat Sheet/Terminate instances

Permanently delete one or more instances.

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Section: EC2 Instances

Terminate instances

bash
bash
aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-0123456789abcdef0
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This is destructive and cannot be undone.

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