**To terminate an Amazon EC2 instance**

This example terminates the specified instance.

Command::

  aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids i-5203422c

Output::

  {
      "TerminatingInstances": [
          {
              "InstanceId": "i-5203422c",
              "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

