Revision as of 20:01, 24 October 2018

External

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

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.

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

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

Setting AWS Credentials

ec2-describe-regions

export EC2_URL=https://<service_endpoint>

Example:

export EC2_URL=https://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Note: For some reason, the console always shows by default "Oregon", which corresponds to https://ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com.

@@ Line 38: / Line 38: @@
 </pre>
-==Set the Access Keys==
+==<span id='Set_the_Access_Keys'>Set AWS Credentials==
-Provision the API access keys for the Amazon IAM user that will use the API. More details about access keys here: [[Amazon AWS Security Concepts#API_Access_Keys|Amazon AWS API Access Keys]].
+{{Internal|Setting AWS Credentials|Setting AWS Credentials}}
-Access keys can be specified on command line every time an ec2 command is issued, with:
-<pre>
--aws-access-key or -O
---aws-secret-key or -W
-</pre>
-or by setting the following environment variables:
- export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=your-aws-access-key-id
- export AWS_SECRET_KEY=your-aws-secret-key
-In case the Java process that is performing the call does not have access to the environment, the credentials may be specified in .aws/credentials:
- [default]
- aws_access_key_id=...
- aws_secret_access_key=...
-For more methods of configuring credentials see:
-{{External|https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/v1/developer-guide/credentials.html#credentials-file-format}}
 =Test Installation=