Amazon EC2 Howtos
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Quick Reference for Amazon EC2
This is a quick reference on how to set up and run/stop instances on Amazon EC2 (http://amazonws.com) on Mac OS X:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr export EC2_HOME=/path/to/your/ec2-api-tools-1.3-19403 export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-....pem export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-....pem
Display available images:
ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon | grep machine
Run an instance:
ec2-run-instances ami-... -k gsg-keypair
Describe instance:
ec2-describe-instances i-...
Open instance ports:
ec2-authorize default -p 22 ec2-authorize default -p 80
Accessing instances via http:
http://ec2-...compute-1.amazonaws.com/
Showing Fingerprints:
ec2-get-console-output i-...
Logging in (make sure you're in the same folder as your keypair file id_rsa-gsg-keypair root):
ssh -i id_rsa-gsg-keypair root@ec2-...compute-1.amazonaws.com
Stop instance:
ec2-terminate-instances i-...
Debian Etch image: ami-30f11459
Check out which instances are running:
go to the website
