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!!Set the Access Keys
==Set the Access Keys==


More details about access keys here:  
More details about access keys here:  

Revision as of 17:30, 11 February 2016

External

Internal

Download

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip

Unzip

cd /opt
unzip .../ec2-api-tools.zip
ln -s ./ec2-api-tools-1.7.5.1 ec2-api-tools

Adjust the command to reflect the actual EC2 API tools version.

Post-Install

Set JAVA_HOME

Set JAVA_HOME for all accounts that are going to use ec2 tools.

Set Environment

For all users that are going to use it, configure the following environment variables in their .bashrc (or equivalent):

export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools
export PATH=${PATH}:${EC2_HOME}/bin

Set the Access Keys

More details about access keys here: |[Amazon Security#APIAccessKeys]


Access keys can be specified on command line every time an ec2 command is issued, with:

{{{ -aws-access-key or -O --aws-secret-key or -W }}}

or by setting the following environment variables:

{{{ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=your-aws-access-key-id export AWS_SECRET_KEY=your-aws-secret-key }}}


!!Test

{{{ ec2-describe-regions }}}

!!Set the Region

{{{ export EC2_URL=https://<service_endpoint> }}}


!!!Commands


|[ec2-describe-regions] |[ec2-describe-instances] |[ec2-start-instances] |[ec2-import-instance] |[ec2-run-instances] |[ec2-create-tags]