Get the list of VPCs in the AWS account

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI v2

AWS CLI command to list VPCs

# filename: list-vpcs

aws ec2 describe-vpcs \
  --query 'Vpcs[*].{
    Id: VpcId,
    Default: IsDefault,
    Cidr: CidrBlock,
    Name:Tags[?Key==`Name`]|[0].Value
    }' \
  --output table

Sample output

----------------------------------------------------------------------
|                            DescribeVpcs                            |
+---------------+----------+-------------------------+---------------+
|     Cidr      | Default  |           Id            |     Name      |
+---------------+----------+-------------------------+---------------+
|  172.31.0.0/16|  True    |  vpc-ac2ec5d1           |  None         |
|  10.1.0.0/16  |  False   |  vpc-01e4c64e6e81c5d85  |  SampleCoVPC  |
+---------------+----------+-------------------------+---------------+

See also

• List EC2 Instances
• List Security Groups