Overview
The "EC2 Start Instance" action allows you to start a stopped Amazon EC2 instance (hereafter "EC2 instance"). Like other actions, you can specify EC2 instance by resource ID or the tag attached to EC2 instance.
Setting options
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| 1 | Region | Select the AWS region from the list where the EC2 instance you want to start is located |
| 2 | Instance | Select the EC2 instance you want to start by resource ID from the list When "Can't find any instances in this region or aws account" is showing in the list, please verify whether AWS account and AWS region are correctly selected
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| Instance with specific tag |
Specify the EC2 instance you want to start by entering key and value to use tags. All EC2 instances in the specified region that have a tag that matches the entered key and value will be the target. |
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| 3 | Check resource state after job execution |
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Setting example
Create a job using the "EC2: Start Instance" action in Cloud Automator.
- Click the "Add Job" button from the operation job screen of Cloud Automator
- Select the group to which the job belongs
- In the trigger selection, select any trigger
- Select "EC2: Start Instance" action in the action selection
- Select any AWS account in the AWS account selection
- Configure the action parameters
No. Option Setting value example 1 Region ap-northeast-1 2 Instance with specific tag key: Environment
value: Development
3 Check resource state after job execution Check - Configure post-processing for success and failure
- Enter the job name and click "Create"
Operation check
- Click the log button for the created job.
- Click the details of the execution log from the execution log list.
- Check the results in the log details. If it shows "Success", you can confirm that the job has been executed and succeeded. If it shows "Running", the job is still executing, so please check again after a while.
- The operation result of each resource can be confirmed in the "Resource operation result" section
This completes the operation check of the job using the "EC2: Start Instance" action.
Please make use of this feature.
Log status conditions
Check resource state after job execution: Yes
Status check: Yes
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Check resource state after job execution: Yes
Status check: No
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Check resource state after job execution: No
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Resource operation history status conditions
Check resource state after job execution: Yes
Status check: Yes
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Check resource state after job execution: Yes
Status check: No
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Check resource state after job execution: No
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AWS APIs used in this action
The following AWS APIs are used for the execution of this action.
The AWS account to be executed must have an IAM policy attached that allows execution of these APIs.