HowTo: enable termination protection for all EC2 instances not in autoscaling groups via aws cli

aws ec2 describe-instances --output text --query 'Reservations[].Instances[?!not_null(Tags[?Key == `aws:autoscaling:groupName`].Value)] | [].[InstanceId]' | xargs -L1 -t aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --disable-api-termination --instance-id
Claus-Theodor Riegg About 4 years ago