**To terminate an Amazon EC2 instance** This example terminates the specified instance. Command:: aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-1234567890abcdef0 Output:: { "TerminatingInstances": [ { "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0", "CurrentState": { "Code": 32, "Name": "shutting-down" }, "PreviousState": { "Code": 16, "Name": "running" } } ] } For more information, see `Using Amazon EC2 Instances`_ in the *AWS Command Line Interface User Guide*. .. _`Using Amazon EC2 Instances`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-launch.html