sqldump

(coffee) => code

Spin Up an EC2 Instance Using Boto

Boto provides an amazing interface to AWS APIs. Here is a simple example to spin up a t1.micro sized EC2 instance of the default Amazon Linux 64 bit AMI.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

from boto.ec2.connection import EC2Connection
key = 'aws access key'
secret = 'aws secret access key'
connection = EC2Connection(
              aws_access_key_id=key,
              aws_secret_access_key=secret)
ami = 'ami-8e1fece7' # AMI ID of the Amazon Linux x86_64 AMI 
reservation = c.run_instances(ami,
              min_count=1,
              max_count=1, 
              key_name='MyKeyPairName', 
              instance_type='t1.micro')
instance = reservation.instances[0]
while instance.update() != 'running':
  sleep(5)

min_count and max_count determine how many instances are to be started. By default, Amazon limits you to starting a maximum of 20 instances. If you need to start more, they require you to contact them with your use case.