EC2 / Client / describe_key_pairs

describe_key_pairs

EC2.Client.describe_key_pairs(**kwargs)

Describes the specified key pairs or all of your key pairs.

For more information about key pairs, see Amazon EC2 key pairs in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.describe_key_pairs(
    Filters=[
        {
            'Name': 'string',
            'Values': [
                'string',
            ]
        },
    ],
    KeyNames=[
        'string',
    ],
    KeyPairIds=[
        'string',
    ],
    DryRun=True|False,
    IncludePublicKey=True|False
)

Parameters:

• Filters (list) –

  The filters.

  • key-pair-id - The ID of the key pair.

  • fingerprint - The fingerprint of the key pair.

  • key-name - The name of the key pair.

  • tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.

  • tag:<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA, specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

  • (dict) –

    A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs.

    If you specify multiple filters, the filters are joined with an AND, and the request returns only results that match all of the specified filters.

    • Name (string) –

      The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

    • Values (list) –

      The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR, and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

      • (string) –

• KeyNames (list) –

  The key pair names.

  Default: Describes all of your key pairs.

  • (string) –

• KeyPairIds (list) –

  The IDs of the key pairs.

  • (string) –

• DryRun (boolean) – Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

• IncludePublicKey (boolean) –

  If true, the public key material is included in the response.

  Default: false

Return type:

dict

Returns:

Response Syntax

{
    'KeyPairs': [
        {
            'KeyPairId': 'string',
            'KeyFingerprint': 'string',
            'KeyName': 'string',
            'KeyType': 'rsa'|'ed25519',
            'Tags': [
                {
                    'Key': 'string',
                    'Value': 'string'
                },
            ],
            'PublicKey': 'string',
            'CreateTime': datetime(2015, 1, 1)
        },
    ]
}

Response Structure

• (dict) –

  • KeyPairs (list) –

    Information about the key pairs.

    • (dict) –

      Describes a key pair.

      • KeyPairId (string) –

        The ID of the key pair.

      • KeyFingerprint (string) –

        If you used CreateKeyPair to create the key pair:

        • For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the SHA-1 digest of the DER encoded private key.

        • For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8.

        If you used ImportKeyPair to provide Amazon Web Services the public key:

        • For RSA key pairs, the key fingerprint is the MD5 public key fingerprint as specified in section 4 of RFC4716.

        • For ED25519 key pairs, the key fingerprint is the base64-encoded SHA-256 digest, which is the default for OpenSSH, starting with OpenSSH 6.8.

      • KeyName (string) –

        The name of the key pair.

      • KeyType (string) –

        The type of key pair.

      • Tags (list) –

        Any tags applied to the key pair.

        • (dict) –

          Describes a tag.

          • Key (string) –

            The key of the tag.

            Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws:.

          • Value (string) –

            The value of the tag.

            Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 256 Unicode characters.

      • PublicKey (string) –

        The public key material.

      • CreateTime (datetime) –

        If you used Amazon EC2 to create the key pair, this is the date and time when the key was created, in ISO 8601 date-time format, in the UTC time zone.

        If you imported an existing key pair to Amazon EC2, this is the date and time the key was imported, in ISO 8601 date-time format, in the UTC time zone.

Examples

This example displays the fingerprint for the specified key.

response = client.describe_key_pairs(
    KeyNames=[
        'my-key-pair',
    ],
)

print(response)

Expected Output:

{
    'KeyPairs': [
        {
            'KeyFingerprint': '1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f',
            'KeyName': 'my-key-pair',
        },
    ],
    'ResponseMetadata': {
        '...': '...',
    },
}