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I don't agree that this simple query wouldn't be as nice with boto3. But combining different services is definitely a nice feature, if you have the use case for

• chousuke 4y ago
  the fun part of that query is that it'll search across all regions that you have configured steampipe to use. If you did that in Python, you at the very least have to manually iterate over each region, handle pagination yourself and combine the results. It gets much more convenient when you want to ask more complicated questions like "What is the most used instance type per region" or "How much EBS capacity do instances use across all regions, grouped by environment tag and disk type?"