AWS: How do I find the list of instances associated with a particular subnet?

AWS now creates a default VPC and default subnet(s) for every instance launched. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/default-vpc.html

You see the list of subnets either through the UI, or through the CLI

$ aws ec2 describe-subnets
{
    "Subnets": [
    ...
    ]
}

But the information on each subnet does not contain the list of instances associated with it.

{
        "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1d",
        "AvailableIpAddressCount": 251,
        "CidrBlock": "172.30.2.0/24",
        "DefaultForAz": false,
        "MapPublicIpOnLaunch": true,
        "State": "available",
        "SubnetId": "<subnet_id>",
        "VpcId": "<vpc_id>",
        "AssignIpv6AddressOnCreation": false,
        "Ipv6CidrBlockAssociationSet": []
},

How do I get the list of instances associated with a subnet?

Solution 1:

Here is an example with a querry for two subnets.

aws ec2 describe-instances --filters 'Name=subnet-id,Values=[subnet-12345678,subnet-90abcdef]'