aws-cli only return certain fields

Question

Given this example of aws-cli command

aws rds describe-db-cluster-snapshots

I returns a list of objects with fields.

I only want to display the fields: "SnapshotCreateTime" and "DBClusterIdentifier"

How do I do this?

Answer 1

AWS CLI provides built-in output filtering capabilities with the --query option.

aws rds describe-db-cluster-snapshots --query 'DBClusterSnapshots[*].[SnapshotCreateTime,DBClusterIdentifier]' 

The above will work if your AWS CLI configured in the same region and have single AWS CLI profile. If AWS CLI configured in a different region and different profile then you can use below command.

 aws rds describe-db-cluster-snapshots --query 'DBClusterSnapshots[*].[SnapshotCreateTime,DBClusterIdentifier]' --region us-west-2 --profile test 

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