Amazon EC2 instance ID
ID aws_ec2_instance_id
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Resource ID of an Amazon EC2 instance: i- followed by 17 characters, or by 8 characters for IDs created before the longer format. The examples in the AWS documentation use lowercase hexadecimal digits, as does the regexp.
- Categories
- Universal unique identifiers
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 70/100 · missing: examples, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- pyWhat
Regular expression
^i-(?:[0-9a-f]{8}|[0-9a-f]{17})$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| i-abc invalid | Too short |
Sources
- other: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/longer-resource-ids-in-2018-for-amazon-ec2-amazon-ebs-and-amazon-vpc
- doc: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyIdFormat.html
Use this record
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https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/aws_ec2_instance_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/identifiers/aws_ec2_instance_id.yamlon GitHub