Running ec2 api tools

I log in using my security credentials. Credentials are things that give me authority to act, such as setting my preferences in an online store.

Everyone, including every cave-dwelling hermit and every technophobe allergic to keyboards, has logged into websites using an account name and password as their credentials.

I have to use a third set of credentials - a certificate and private key. This is how I create them. For some reason, installing Java on OSX doesn't set this variable. Run a command that is read-only. A simple one is ec2-describe-regions that lists AWS regions.

If all goes well this command displays half a dozen entries. I can play around with this command safely. I can remove the certificate location, just to check this really is being used for my credentials. There are dozens of lines of this scary-looking text. It is a stack of error messages a Java programmer can use to find an exception. Nick Hardiman builds and maintains the infrastructure required to run Internet services.

Nick deals with the lower layers of the Internet - the machines, networks, operating systems, and applications. Nick's job stops there, and he hands over to the Here's the quick summary.

Open a terminal on my personal computer. Install Java. Create security credentials an X. Learn more. Getting ID of an instance newly launched with ec2-api-tools Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 9 months ago. Active 3 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 8k times. Improve this question. Jonik Jonik Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Just an example. The user name to use depends on the AMI. We apparently have to poll.

Crashed or was terminated. Or expr. Improve this answer. Thanks Dennis - it's somewhat cleaner now — Jonik. I can't get your awk to work in Ubuntu bash. I see the error in the print, the edit times out, couldn't finish. When I substituted the 'egrep and cut' commands from below, it worked.

InstanceId' --output text. Alexey Vazhnov Alexey Vazhnov 1, 11 11 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. No need to use awk: create the instance and capture the instance id echo "Launching instance Aakash Kag Aakash Kag 6 6 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Always quote the most relevant part of an important link, in case the target site is unreachable or goes permanently offline. Take into account that being barely more than a link to an external site is a possible reason as to Why and how are some answers deleted?

To run above command install jq and then save json response in file and then try.. Please edit your answer with this information, instead of posting comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.