Using EC2 – Getting Started Guide example
Get setup to use EC2 (detailed in a prior post).
Find the AMI you want to run: List AMIs. Find ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest.xml and note it’s AMI number from column 2:
ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon
...snip... IMAGE ami-2bb65342 ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest.xml amazon available public i386 machine ...snip...
Create an ssh keypair that will be used to access it:
ec2-add-keypair gsg-keypair
Save key to id_rsa-gsg-keypair
Create an instance of that type that will be accessed using that keypair:
ec2-run-instances ami-2bb65342 -k gsg-keypair
RESERVATION r-22f4254b 337706654870 default INSTANCE i-6b14b302 ami-2bb65342 pending gsg-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-09-10T01:54:13+0000
Keep checking it until it’s status changes from pending to running:
ec2-describe-instances i-6b14b302
INSTANCE i-6b14b302 ami-2bb65342 ec2-75-101-211-91.compute-1.amazonaws.com ip-10-250-13-176.ec2.internal running gsg-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-09-10T01:54:13+0000 us-east-1b
Allow SSH and HTTP access to instances in your default group:
ec2-authorize default -p 22
ec2-authorize default -p 80
ssh -i Keys/aws/ec2/id_rsa-gsg-keypair root@root@ec2-75-101-211-91.compute-1.amazonaws.com
To tear it down:
ec2-terminate-instances i-6b14b302
The instances hang around in the output of ec2-describe-instances for quite some time, in state terminated. After I went to the store and came back, they were gone.