2022/04/28 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support to query the public key and creation date of EC2 Key Pairs. Additionally, the format (pem or ppk) of a key pair can be specified when creating a new key pair.
{'KeyFormat': 'pem | ppk'}
Creates an ED25519 or 2048-bit RSA key pair with the specified name and in the specified PEM or PPK format. Amazon EC2 stores the public key and displays the private key for you to save to a file. The private key is returned as an unencrypted PEM encoded PKCS#1 private key or an unencrypted PPK formatted private key for use with PuTTY. If a key with the specified name already exists, Amazon EC2 returns an error.
The key pair returned to you is available only in the Amazon Web Services Region in which you create it. If you prefer, you can create your own key pair using a third-party tool and upload it to any Region using ImportKeyPair .
You can have up to 5,000 key pairs per Amazon Web Services Region.
For more information, see Amazon EC2 key pairs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .
See also: AWS API Documentation
Request Syntax
client.create_key_pair(
KeyName='string',
DryRun=True|False,
KeyType='rsa'|'ed25519',
TagSpecifications=[
{
'ResourceType': 'capacity-reservation'|'client-vpn-endpoint'|'customer-gateway'|'carrier-gateway'|'dedicated-host'|'dhcp-options'|'egress-only-internet-gateway'|'elastic-ip'|'elastic-gpu'|'export-image-task'|'export-instance-task'|'fleet'|'fpga-image'|'host-reservation'|'image'|'import-image-task'|'import-snapshot-task'|'instance'|'instance-event-window'|'internet-gateway'|'ipam'|'ipam-pool'|'ipam-scope'|'ipv4pool-ec2'|'ipv6pool-ec2'|'key-pair'|'launch-template'|'local-gateway'|'local-gateway-route-table'|'local-gateway-virtual-interface'|'local-gateway-virtual-interface-group'|'local-gateway-route-table-vpc-association'|'local-gateway-route-table-virtual-interface-group-association'|'natgateway'|'network-acl'|'network-interface'|'network-insights-analysis'|'network-insights-path'|'network-insights-access-scope'|'network-insights-access-scope-analysis'|'placement-group'|'prefix-list'|'replace-root-volume-task'|'reserved-instances'|'route-table'|'security-group'|'security-group-rule'|'snapshot'|'spot-fleet-request'|'spot-instances-request'|'subnet'|'subnet-cidr-reservation'|'traffic-mirror-filter'|'traffic-mirror-session'|'traffic-mirror-target'|'transit-gateway'|'transit-gateway-attachment'|'transit-gateway-connect-peer'|'transit-gateway-multicast-domain'|'transit-gateway-route-table'|'volume'|'vpc'|'vpc-endpoint'|'vpc-endpoint-service'|'vpc-peering-connection'|'vpn-connection'|'vpn-gateway'|'vpc-flow-log',
'Tags': [
{
'Key': 'string',
'Value': 'string'
},
]
},
],
KeyFormat='pem'|'ppk'
)
string
[REQUIRED]
A unique name for the key pair.
Constraints: Up to 255 ASCII characters
boolean
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .
string
The type of key pair. Note that ED25519 keys are not supported for Windows instances.
Default: rsa
list
The tags to apply to the new key pair.
(dict) --
The tags to apply to a resource when the resource is being created.
ResourceType (string) --
The type of resource to tag on creation.
Tags (list) --
The tags to apply to the resource.
(dict) --
Describes a tag.
Key (string) --
The key of the tag.
Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .
Value (string) --
The value of the tag.
Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.
string
The format of the key pair.
Default: pem
dict
Response Syntax
{
'KeyFingerprint': 'string',
'KeyMaterial': 'string',
'KeyName': 'string',
'KeyPairId': 'string',
'Tags': [
{
'Key': 'string',
'Value': 'string'
},
]
}
Response Structure
(dict) --
Describes a key pair.
KeyFingerprint (string) --
For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key.
For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8.
KeyMaterial (string) --
An unencrypted PEM encoded RSA or ED25519 private key.
KeyName (string) --
The name of the key pair.
KeyPairId (string) --
The ID of the key pair.
Tags (list) --
Any tags applied to the key pair.
(dict) --
Describes a tag.
Key (string) --
The key of the tag.
Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .
Value (string) --
The value of the tag.
Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.
{'IncludePublicKey': 'boolean'}
Response {'KeyPairs': {'CreateTime': 'timestamp', 'PublicKey': 'string'}}
Describes the specified key pairs or all of your key pairs.
For more information about key pairs, see Amazon EC2 key pairs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide .
See also: AWS API Documentation
Request Syntax
client.describe_key_pairs(
Filters=[
{
'Name': 'string',
'Values': [
'string',
]
},
],
KeyNames=[
'string',
],
KeyPairIds=[
'string',
],
DryRun=True|False,
IncludePublicKey=True|False
)
list
The filters.
key-pair-id - The ID of the key pair.
fingerprint - The fingerprint of the key pair.
key-name - The name of the key pair.
tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.
tag :<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA , specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.
(dict) --
A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs.
If you specify multiple filters, the filters are joined with an AND , and the request returns only results that match all of the specified filters.
Name (string) --
The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.
Values (list) --
The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR , and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.
(string) --
list
The key pair names.
Default: Describes all of your key pairs.
(string) --
list
The IDs of the key pairs.
(string) --
boolean
Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .
boolean
If true , the public key material is included in the response.
Default: false
dict
Response Syntax
{
'KeyPairs': [
{
'KeyPairId': 'string',
'KeyFingerprint': 'string',
'KeyName': 'string',
'KeyType': 'rsa'|'ed25519',
'Tags': [
{
'Key': 'string',
'Value': 'string'
},
],
'PublicKey': 'string',
'CreateTime': datetime(2015, 1, 1)
},
]
}
Response Structure
(dict) --
KeyPairs (list) --
Information about the key pairs.
(dict) --
Describes a key pair.
KeyPairId (string) --
The ID of the key pair.
KeyFingerprint (string) --
If you used CreateKeyPair to create the key pair:
For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key.
For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8 .
If you used ImportKeyPair to provide Amazon Web Services the public key:
For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the MD5 public key fingerprint as specified in section 4 of RFC4716.
For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8 .
KeyName (string) --
The name of the key pair.
KeyType (string) --
The type of key pair.
Tags (list) --
Any tags applied to the key pair.
(dict) --
Describes a tag.
Key (string) --
The key of the tag.
Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .
Value (string) --
The value of the tag.
Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.
PublicKey (string) --
The public key material.
CreateTime (datetime) --
If you used Amazon EC2 to create the key pair, this is the date and time when the key was created, in ISO 8601 date-time format , in the UTC time zone.
If you imported an existing key pair to Amazon EC2, this is the date and time the key was imported, in ISO 8601 date-time format , in the UTC time zone.