How to create a Powershell Script to start an EC2 instance and capture public IP?

Question

would like to create a Powershell Script that runs the following steps:

1 - Start an EC2 Instance in AWS (Windows);

2 - Wait for it to be available for remote connection. While waiting, display a waiting message for the user;

3 - Once available, get the Public IP (which will be randomized);

4 - Start Remote Desktop to capture this Instance using this IP;

Steps 1 and 4 I have already managed, but the most difficult are steps 2 and 3. I already looked here at Stackoverflow and also did not find.

If anyone has any ideas, I’d be very grateful.

Hugs

Answer 1

For step 2 Voce you can use the Wait commands, such as aws ec2 wait instance-status-ok --instance-ids i-xxxxxxxx (use --query in step 1 to capture instance id): http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/wait/instance-running.html

To the step 3: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24938971/list-public-ip-addresses-of-ec2-instances/24939787#24939787