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title: EC2 API tools
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### Install
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$ sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools ec2-ami-tools # Ubuntu
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$ brew install ec2-api-tools ec2-ami-tools # OSX/Homebrew
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### Key pair
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To use public images (AMI's), you need an SSH keypair from EC2.
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$ ec2-add-keypair my-keypair > ~/.ec2/my-keypair.pem
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$ chmod 600 ec2-keypair.pem
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### Start an instance
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# Show images (AMI's) owned by amazon, or me
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$ ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon
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# Start an instance using a given AMI image
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$ ec2-run-instances ami-xxxxxx -k ec2-keypair
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# Open up ports (in the 'default' security group)
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$ ec2-authorize default -p 22
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$ ec2-authorize default -p 80
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# Now SSH to it
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$ ssh -i ~/.ec2/my-keypair.pem root@ec2-xxx.amazonaws.com
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### Management
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# Show running
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$ ec2-describe-instances
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# Kill an instance
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$ ec2-terminate-instances i-yourinstance
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### Misc
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# Create a security group
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$ ec2-add-group group_name -d "Description"
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### Ubuntu images
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* [Ubuntu EC2 AMI locator](http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/)
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### Change certificates
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EC2_CERT_PATH="$HOME/.ec2"
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export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY="$(/bin/ls $EC2_CERT_PATH/pk-*.pem | /usr/bin/head -1)"
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export EC2_CERT="$(/bin/ls $EC2_CERT_PATH/cert-*.pem | /usr/bin/head -1)"
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