Working with AWS EC2 instances from aws command line tool

Command to list instances using JMESPath query

aws ec2 describe-instances --query "Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId, Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value|[0], State.Name, PrivateIpAddress, InstanceType]" --output=table

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                              DescribeInstances                              |
+----------------------+------------+----------+-----------------+------------+
|  i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |  node0     |  running |  172.31.11.20   |  t2.micro  |
|  i-yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy |  node1     |  stopped |  172.31.11.21   |  t2.large  |
+----------------------+------------+----------+-----------------+------------+

Command to start instances

aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx i-yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Command to stop instances

aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx i-yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy