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Use a waiter until an EC2 instance is running.

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Section: Common Cross-Service Recipes

Wait for a resource state

bash
bash
aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-ids i-0123456789abcdef0
Explanation

Waiters poll the service until a known condition is met or a timeout occurs.

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