Unable to find Free Instance in console.

Question

I setup a free EC2 instance running WordPress with a public IP address of 52.39.20.17. It's up and online with a hostname of ec2-52-39-20-17.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com. I would like to assign a static IP address to this instance but can't find it in the console anywhere. I've looked in multiple regions, starting with west-2 (Oregon) with no luck. There isn't one EC2 instance running. There is an S3 bucket but it only has two .csv files for a different test I'm running. I'm unaware of any other account this could have been accidentally created under.

Can you provide guidance on how to find this instance so I can assign a public IP address to it.

Answer

Given the shared hostname, it appears to be an EC2 located in "us-west-2".  
You may want to try reloading it on the instance page.

You can also run the following AWS CLI command to obtain a list of EC2s in us-west-2.  
```
aws ec2 describe-instances --region us-west-2
```
The commands can be executed with CloudShell.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/latest/userguide/getting-started.html

Answer

In the us-west-2 region it displays no EC2 instances.

Can you confirm (or deny) if this instance if owned by the current account? The only other possibility is it's under another account.

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CLI
[cloudshell-user@ip-10-6-36-194 ~]$ aws ec2 describe-instances --region us-west-2
{
    "Reservations": []
}
[cloudshell-user@ip-10-6-36-194 ~]$

Unable to find Free Instance in console.

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