Query EC2 Account Limits with AWS API

Here’s a useful tip mentioned in one of the sessions at AWS re:Invent this year.

There is a little known API call that lets you query some of the EC2 limits/attributes in your account. The API call is DescribeAccountAttributes and you can use the aws-cli to query it from the command line.

For full JSON output:

aws ec2 describe-account-attributes

To query select limits/attributes and output them in a handy table format: