I’m often switching between different Amazon AWS accounts. So to speed things along I’ve set up some simple scripts to easily switch between accounts while at the command line On Linux (aws_setup): <code>#!/bin/bash export EC2_URL=https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com export EC2_CERT=/home/john/cert-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=/home/john/pk-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem</code> Once saved, run chmod +x aws_setup On Windows (aws_setup.cmd): <code>SET EC2_URL=https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com SET EC2_CERT=C:\Users\John\cert-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem SET EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=C:\Users\John\pk-12345678901234567890123456789012.pem</code> Save [...]

Here are some simple commands to get you started with using Amazon EC2: ec2dim Displays your account’s AMIs that are on Amazon ec2run ami-XXXXXXXX This launches your Amazon EC2 instance. Use your own or one of Amazon’s AMI IDs ec2din Describes your running instances with AMI and instance IDs ec2dvol Lists your account’s volumes and [...]