Get EC2 status with IP address

Question

Is there a way I could get the status of the aws instance knowing only the IP Address of the Ec2 instance?

The documentation suggests knowing the instanceId prior calling the api, but what in case I do not have the instanceId?

Answer 1

Sure you can:

aws ec2 describe-instances --filters Name=ip-address,Values=publicIP --output text --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].State.Name'

Obviously change publicIP to your real public IP Address