Amazon EC2 - how to get list of process running on instances via AWS API?

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4.7k views Asked by Vijay Pendse At 24 April 2017 at 09:12

How to get a list of process running on Amazon EC2 instances via the AWS API?

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**mickzer** · Answer 1 · 2017-04-24T09:59:23+00:00

mickzer On 24 April 2017 at 09:59

This isn't possible. The EC2 API doesn't provide any actions to perform operations or retrieve data from the operating system layer.

**John Rotenstein** · Answer 2 · 2017-04-24T10:20:37+00:00

John Rotenstein On 24 April 2017 at 10:20

This could be accomplished by using the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Run Command, which uses an agent installed on EC2 instances to run remote commands.

It takes a bit of configuration, but allows you to run commands on potentially hundreds of instances with one command.