Reduce the number of items retrieved per service call.
Section: Global Options, Output, and Queries
Control service page size
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aws ec2 describe-instances --page-size 25Explanation
Can help long-running list operations avoid timeouts while still returning the full result set.
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Disable automatic pagination
Fetch only the first page of a paginated result set.
Limit total items returned
Return only a specific number of items in the CLI output.