Amazon Web Services (AWS) - List Route Tables using the AWS CLI

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: February 21 2024
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This assumes you have already configured the aws command line tool. If not, check out my article on Getting Started with the AWS CLI.
The aws ec2 describe-route-tables command can be used to list your Route Tables.
aws ec2 describe-route-tables
And here is an example of how to limit the output using the --query option to list the route table in a specific Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
aws ec2 describe-route-tables --query 'RouteTables[?VpcId==`vpc-014d2fcfa335d3c01`]'
Something like this should be returned.
[
{
"Associations": [
{
"AssociationState": {
"State": "associated"
},
"RouteTableAssociationId": "rtbassoc-03d88b8f543d22956",
"Main": true,
"RouteTableId": "rtb-0587dc78ea0f59472"
}
],
"RouteTableId": "rtb-0587dc78ea0f59472",
"VpcId": "vpc-014d2fcfa335d3c01",
"PropagatingVgws": [],
"Tags": [
{
"Value": "ManagedByAmazonFSx",
"Key": "AmazonFSx"
}
],
"Routes": [
{
"GatewayId": "local",
"DestinationCidrBlock": "172.31.0.0/16",
"State": "active",
"Origin": "CreateRouteTable"
},
{
"GatewayId": "igw-020c1f7ec148352b3",
"DestinationCidrBlock": "0.0.0.0/0",
"State": "active",
"Origin": "CreateRoute"
}
],
"OwnerId": "123456789012"
}
]
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