activities=$(aws autoscaling describe-scaling-activities --auto-scaling-group-name "magento72-Asg1ASG8A2F9427-14BDPN7DBF734") for row in $(echo "${activities}" | jq -r '.Activities[] | @base64'); do _jq() { echo ${row} | base64 --decode | jq -r ${1} } start_time=$(_jq '.StartTime') end_time=$(_jq '.EndTime') activity=$(_jq '.Description') echo $start_time $activity Duration: $(dateutils.ddiff $start_time $end_time) #echo $activity $start_time $end_time Duration: $(dateutils.ddiff $start_time $end_time) done