ec2-remove-unused-key-pairs

This workflow looks at all of the unused EC2 key pairs in an account and deletes them.

Prerequisites

Before you run this workflow, you will need the following:

• An AWS account.
• An AWS IAM user with permissions to list and terminate EC2 instances (if not run in dry run mode).
• One or more running EC2 key pairs that are unused.

Run the workflow

Follow these steps to run the workflow:

1. Add your AWS credentials as a Connection:

   • Click Setup
   • Find the Connection named my-aws-account and click Edit(✎). Use the following values:
     • KEY: ACCESS KEY ID
     • VALUE: Enter your AWS access key id associated with the account
     • KEY: SECRET ACCESS KEY
     • VALUE: Enter your AWS secret access key associated with the account
   • Click Save

2. Click Run workflow and wait for the workflow run page to appear.

3. Supply following parameters to the modal:

   • KEY: region
   • VALUE: The AWS region to run in
   • KEY: dryRun
   • VALUE: True if you dont want to actually delete the resources. Use this to test the workflow and ensure it is behaving as expected.

4. Warning: If you run the workflow with the dryRun parameter set to false, key pairs that are not used will be deleted.

Run the workflow on a schedule

Follow these steps to run this workflow on a schedule:

• Un-comment out the Trigger block in the workflow file:

TIP: If you're using the Relay code editor, highlight the triggers section and type ⌘ + / (Mac) or Ctrl + / (Windows) to uncomment.

# triggers:
# - name: schedule
#   source:
#     type: schedule
#     schedule: '0 * * * *'
#   binding:
#     parameters:
#       region: us-east-1
#       dryRun: true

• Configure the schedule trigger:
  • Supply the run interval in cron format.
• Configure the following parameter bindings:
  • Specify the region to run in.
  • Specify whether dryRun should be set to true or false.
• Click Save changes