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[![AWS EC2 Instance Management with Boto3: Start, Stop, and Query Instances](/_astro/hero.PnHlvJay_ZkFqWG.webp)](/codesnippets/post/aws-ec2-instance-management-boto3-python)

## [AWS EC2 Instance Management with Boto3: Start, Stop, and Query Instances](/codesnippets/post/aws-ec2-instance-management-boto3-python)

-   [Mohammad Abu Mattar](/authors/mohammad-abu-mattar)
-   [Cloud](/codesnippets/categories/cloud)
-   [Aws](/codesnippets/categories/aws)
-   [Devops](/codesnippets/categories/devops)
-   [Automation](/codesnippets/categories/automation)
-   Published: 14 Apr, 2026

If you've ever spent 20 minutes clicking through the AWS Console just to stop a handful of dev instances, you already know the pain. It's tedious, it doesn't scale, and one wrong click can ruin your a

[#AWS](/codesnippets/tags/aws)[#EC2](/codesnippets/tags/ec2)[#Boto3](/codesnippets/tags/boto3)+6 tags

[Python](/codesnippets/python)

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[![Why printf Beats echo in Linux Scripts](/_astro/hero.Dl3YkIwZ_Z1w9hux.webp)](/codesnippets/post/printf-beats-echo-linux-scripts)

## [Why printf Beats echo in Linux Scripts](/codesnippets/post/printf-beats-echo-linux-scripts)

-   [Mohammad Abu Mattar](/authors/mohammad-abu-mattar)
-   [Shell scripting](/codesnippets/categories/shell-scripting)
-   [Devops](/codesnippets/categories/devops)
-   [Linux](/codesnippets/categories/linux)
-   Published: 02 Jan, 2026

Scripting Tip You know that feeling when a script works perfectly on your machine but fails miserably somewhere else? That's probably because you're using echo for output. Let me show you why pri

[#Bash](/codesnippets/tags/bash)[#Shell Scripting](/codesnippets/tags/shell-scripting)[#Printf](/codesnippets/tags/printf)+5 tags

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[![Essential Bash Variables for Every Script](/_astro/hero.B4bDowyY_YQpD7.webp)](/codesnippets/post/essential-bash-variables)

## [Essential Bash Variables for Every Script](/codesnippets/post/essential-bash-variables)

-   [Mohammad Abu Mattar](/authors/mohammad-abu-mattar)
-   [Shell scripting](/codesnippets/categories/shell-scripting)
-   [Devops](/codesnippets/categories/devops)
-   Published: 26 Dec, 2025

Overview Quick Tip You know what's worse than writing scripts? Writing scripts that break every time you move them to a different machine. Let's fix that with some built-in Bash variables tha

[#Bash](/codesnippets/tags/bash)[#Shell Scripting](/codesnippets/tags/shell-scripting)[#Linux](/codesnippets/tags/linux)+4 tags

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[![List S3 Buckets](/_astro/hero.BsiJ6hry_1X9XLn.webp)](/codesnippets/post/python-list-s3-buckets)

## [List S3 Buckets](/codesnippets/post/python-list-s3-buckets)

-   [Mohammad Abu Mattar](/authors/mohammad-abu-mattar)
-   [Aws](/codesnippets/categories/aws)
-   [Python](/codesnippets/categories/python)
-   [Devops](/codesnippets/categories/devops)
-   Published: 25 Jun, 2025

Overview Multi-Profile S3 Management Multi-Profile S3 Safari! Ever juggled multiple AWS accounts and needed a quick S3 bucket inventory across all of them? This Python script is your guid

[#Python](/codesnippets/tags/python)[#Boto3](/codesnippets/tags/boto3)[#AWS](/codesnippets/tags/aws)+5 tags

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