Introduction

In the beginning of this week, we announced our chatbot for AWS APIs which lets you query or provision AWS resources using plain english commands. You can read full announcement here. The announcement also describes how to configure your aws account so that the chatbot can communicate with AWS using your aws account.

This blog post describes the prompts which one can use to manage AWS EC2 resources (vpc, subnet, vm etc) using MechCloud Chatbot for AWS APIs.

This chatbot now has support for the following ec2 operations (this list will be updated from time to time as we add support for more operations) -

• Creating a vpc

• Listing vpcs

• Creating a subnet

• Listing subnets

• Listing instances types (e.g. t2.micro)

• Provisioning one or more ec2 VMs

• Starting/stopping one or more ec2 VMs

Supported opertions

Creating a vpc

Required permissions

• ec2:CreateVpc

Prompt examples

create a vpc with '10.101.0.0/16' cidr

Listing vpcs

Required permissions

• ec2:DescribeVpcs

Prompt examples

list all the vpcs

list all the vpcs which are not default

Creating a subnet

Required permissions

• ec2:CreateSubnet

Prompt examples

create a subnet with '10.101.1.0/24' cidr

Listing subnets

Required permissions

• ec2:DescribeSubnets

Prompt examples

list all the subnets

list all the subnets which are not default

list all the subnets under '<vpc_id>' vpc

Describe instance types (e.g t2.micro)

Prompt examples

list all the instance types which are free tier eligible

Provisioning more or more ec2 VMs

Prompt examples

Provision an ec2 vm with following details -
subnet id - <subnet id>
ami id - <ami id>
instance type - t2.micro
min count - 1
max count - 1

Starting/stopping one or more ec2 VMs

Prompt examples

Start ec2 vms with following ids -
<vm1 id>
<vm2 id>

Stop ec2 vms with following ids -
<vm1 id>
<vm2 id>

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