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Can't get list of AWS instances

I'm trying to get a list of all my AWS instances but so far no luck.

$client=[Amazon.AWSClientFactory]::CreateAmazonEC2Client($Access,$Secret)
$request = New-Object Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeInstancesRequest
$response = $client.DescribeInstances($request)

but $response doesn't contain any data to work with. If I do $response.DescribeInstancesResult, I get an empty result.

Meir Rivkin

$client = [Amazon.AWSClientFactory]::CreateAmazonEC2Client($Access,$Secret)
$startReq = New-Object amazon.EC2.Model.StartInstancesRequest
$startReq.InstanceId.Add($instanceID);
$startResponse = $client.StartInstances($startReq)
$startResult = $startResponse.StartInstancesResult;
$startResult

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Mikex13

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#Sedgwick: Looking at your code, that starts an instance with a given instance ID. But what I'm after is the step before that: get a list of all instances.

Meir Rivkin

Ok let me check

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Done some more research, looking at AWS SDKs and noticed the "region" parameter which I or previous posters have not mentioned before. Adding that parameter fixed my issue.