AWS - EC2 instances not showing up in console

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jordan picture jordan · Nov 6, 2015 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I am trying to set up mongodb on and EC2 instance configured for EBS. I am following this MongoDB walkthrough. I created a new instance with the ec2 command line tool:

ec2-run-instances ami-05355a6c -t m1.large -b "/dev/xvdf=:200:false:io1:1000" -b "/dev/xvdg=:25:false:io1:250" -b "/dev/xvdh=:10:false:io1:100" --ebs-optimized true

and it says the instance is created. However, when I go to the aws console, it doesn't show up. Additionally, when I run:

ec2-describe-instances [instance id]

it prints out info for a running instance

RESERVATION r-5c259387c 6724431926739   
INSTANCE    [instance-id]   ami-05355a6c    ec2-[ip-address].computer-1.amazonaws.com   ip-172-31-41-121.ec2.internal   running     0       m1.large    2015-11-06T03:18:26+0000    us-east-1c  aki-88aarjns8           monitoring-disabled [ip-address]    [internal-ip-address]   vpc-778e98sy    subnet-3060eb47 ebs                 paravirtual xen     sg-d94097bd default true    
BLOCKDEVICE /dev/sda1   vol-beb6posj    2015-11-06T03:18:30.000Z    true        
BLOCKDEVICE /dev/xvdf   vol-e2b75aef    2015-11-06T03:18:30.000Z    false       
BLOCKDEVICE /dev/xvdg   vol-29b65ard    2015-11-06T03:18:30.000Z    false       
BLOCKDEVICE /dev/xvdh   vol-bfb65sdf    2015-11-06T03:18:30.000Z    false       
NIC eni-20sdff6d    subnet-3060eb47 vpc-778ee212    672443198021    in-use  [internal-ip-address]   true
NICATTACHMENT   eni-attach-c916sdfe 0   attached    2015-11-05T20:18:26-0700    true
NICASSOCIATION  [ip-address]    amazon  [internal-ip-address]
GROUP   sg-dd4577bd default
PRIVATEIPADDRESS    [ip-address]    [internal-ip-address]

What am I missing? Where is this instance being created? Why does it not show up in my list of instances?

Answer

phoenix picture phoenix · Nov 6, 2015

You need to select the region you want to view in the aws console. You have created instances in region A and your console is displaying instances of region B. Select the region from the top right corner option to the left of 'support' option

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