Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today.

Although you can use AWS CLI for a number of different AWS APIs, I'm going to stick to how it compares to EC2 API tools. Instead of every command starting with ec2-, every command starts with aws ec2 ...

If the key pair is named ec2.key.pem, the following command changes its permissions appropriately. $ chmod 400 ec2.key.pem The next screen allows you to define a security group.

And, the latter is the subject of this article. Recently, with the advent of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Canonical has added support for pre-baked Amazon EC2 images. This makes spinning up your own ...

Windows might require you to enclose a value between apostrophes, for example, while Linux uses quotation marks. ... If, for example, you wanted to direct a command at AWS EC2, then the first part of ...