How can terminated instances be removed from AWS SSM's inventory?

frozensaberz 0
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I'm trying to remove terminated managed nodes from SSM's inventory, but couldn't find any way to do so through either the CLI or through an SDK. Currently, when I run the command aws ssm get-inventory the resulting list contains a lot of entries of the following pattern:

{
    "Id": "i-0ffeeb0756265c10f",
    "Data": {
        "AWS:InstanceInformation": {
            "TypeName": "AWS:InstanceInformation",
            "SchemaVersion": "1.0",
            "CaptureTime": "2022-09-09T05:11:53Z",
            "Content": [
                {
                    "InstanceId": "i-0ffeeb0756265c10f",
                    "InstanceStatus": "Terminated"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

These instances also do not show up in managed nodes in the AWS console. Is there a way to remove these terminated instances from the SSM inventory? Thanks a lot!

aws-ssm aws-sdk aws-cli amazon-web-services
1 Answers

aws ssm get-inventory can use --filters.

Key=string,Values=string,string,Type=string

For you:

Key=InstanceStatus,Values=Terminated,Type=NotEqual

So something like this should work:

aws ssm get-inventory --filters Key=InstanceStatus,Values=Terminated,Type=NotEqual

This is just what I get from docs here. I haven't tried it so may need some tweaking.

Erik Asplund0
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