Answer Posted / Sitesh Kumar

To start an EC2 instance using Ansible, you first need to set up an inventory file with your AWS credentials and the instance details. Here's a simple example of an Ansible playbook that starts an EC2 instance:nn```yamln- name: Start EC2 instancen hosts: my_ec2_instancesnn tasks:n - name: Wait for EC2 instance to be runningn amazon.aws.wait_for_instance:n instance_ids: '{{ instance_id }}'nn - name: Start the EC2 instancen amazon.aws.ec2: n region: us-west-2n instance_id: '{{ instance_id }}'n state: runningn register: ec2_startednn vars:n - name: instance_idn value: i-0123456789abcdef0

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