Error: importing EC2 Key Pair (ssh-key): operation error EC2: ImportKeyPair in to AWS EC2

Error: importing EC2 Key Pair (ssh-key): operation error EC2: ImportKeyPair, https response error StatusCode: 400, RequestID: 7ef58acb-c106-44ff-a96b-ea7c92c81f18, api error InvalidParameterValue: Value for parameter PublicKeyMaterial is invalid. Length exceeds maximum of 2048.

Solution:

You are trying to import a private key.  You need to extract the public key.  

Here is how you create the key:  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C "name@domain.com" -f ~/ssh-key.pem

Now to remove the public key run: ssh-keygen -y -f ~/ssh-key.pem > ~/ssh-key-pub.pem

It'll now import!

Source: Link

AWS EC2 Start/Stop Scripts using Tagging

So my first version of this just used a list of ec2 ids and stopped and started.  I need it to make it more "cloud like".  So what is more cloud like? Tagging!  I now have it building a list based on an explicit tag, then comparing it to another list that is dynamic based on a tag called shutdown with the value of Exclude.  Anything with the exclude value, I don't want it shut down.  As always, anyone has ways of making this better, post below.

Shutdown

#!/bin/bash

instance_list=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --filters Name=tag-value,Values="Enter-tag-value-here-no-quotes"| cut -f 8 | grep ^i-)

exclude_list=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --filters Name=tag-value,Values="Enter-tag-value-here-no-quotes"| cut -f 8 | grep ^i-)

while IFS= read -r instance_id
do
        echo "Shutting down: $instance_id";
        if [[ ${exclude_list[*]} =~ $instance_id ]]; then
   echo "The instance must stay powered on";
        else
            status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3 | grep 'stopped\|stopping\|running\|pending')

            if [ $status != "stopped" ];
            then
                aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids $instance_id
                sleep 10
                status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3 | grep 'stopped\|stopping\|running\|pending')
                echo "The $instance_id is $status";
             fi
        fi
done <<< "$instance_list"

Startup

#!/bin/bash

instance_list=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --filters Name=tag-value,Values="Enter-tag-value-here-no-quotes" | cut -f 8 | grep ^i-)

while IFS= read -r instance_id
do
        status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3 | grep 'stopped\|stopping\|running\|pending')
        echo "The instance $instance_id is $status"

        while [ "$status" != 'running' ];
        do
                aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids $instance_id
                sleep 10
                status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3| grep 'stopped\|stopping\|running\|pending')
                echo "The instance $instance_id is $status"

                if [ "$status" == 'running' ]; then
                        echo "The $instance_id is $status"
                        break
                fi
        done
done <<< "$instance_list"

AWS EC2 Startup/Shutdown Scripts

Couple assumptions:

1.  You've already installed the aws cli
2.  You've already run aws configure
3.  You are running this from an instance that never gets shutdown

Shutdown

#!/bin/bash

instance_list="instance1
instance2"

while IFS= read -r instance_id
do
        status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3 | grep stopped)
        echo "The instance $instance_id is $status"

        while [ "$status" != 'stopped' ];
        do
                aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids $instance_id
                sleep 10
                status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3| grep stopped)
                echo "The instance $instance_id is $status"

                if [ "$status" == 'stopped' ]; then
                        echo "The $instance_id is $status"
                        break
                fi
        done
done <<< "$instance_list"

Startup

#!/bin/bash

instance_list="instance1
instance2"

while IFS= read -r instance_id
do
        status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3 | grep running)
        echo "The instance $instance_id is $status"

        while [ "$status" != 'running' ];
        do
                aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids $instance_id
                sleep 10
                status=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $instance_id | cut -f 3| grep running)
                echo "The instance $instance_id is $status"

                if [ "$status" == 'running' ]; then
                        echo "The $instance_id is $status"
                        break
                fi
        done
done <<< "$instance_list"

Right now this is doing it based on the list you write.  I did out that if you could grab all instances like this:

instance_list=$(aws ec2 describe-instances | cut -f 8 | grep ^i-)

The problem is that your shutting down the box with the scripts.  Plus I do have a couple of servers I don't want to go down.  Good enough for now but I need to add a way to exclude instances and also save EIPs so I can reattach the same EIP when I bring it back up.  If you know how to do it, please feel free to improve this in the comments!