Oct 16, 2014 · It should be noted that the EC2 AMI tools are only for dealing with the older style instance-store (S3 based) AMIs. The tools for the newer, more popular EBS boot AMIs are in the EC2 API tools (ec2-register, ec2-deregister, ec2-create-image). The documentation from Amazon is not clear on this distiction. –

Jan 7, 2022 · In my Linux Ubuntu box, I have two variants for tools installed for AWS EC2. AWS CLI v2 installed @ /usr/local/aws-cli/2.4.0 These provide the unified AWS CLI interface that everyone is used to aws ec2 <subcmd> EC2 API command line tools @/usr/bin/ec2-version These tools seem to be mer shell scripts wrappers to java invocations of ec2 commands.

Nov 3, 2012 · About ec2-api-tools: I agree that they are a bit too clunky, I particular dislike the output of ec2-describe-instances. I recently switched to python-boto which offers a very clean and easy to use interface to ec2. About not being able to specify a passphrase for the ssh key generated by EC2: That's not the case.

Dec 7, 2017 · So I have a load of scripts which use ec2-api-tools. Our infosec people have identified an issue in one of the included libraries, that comes with it. So I've gone on the hunt for a current updated version. However, it seems that …

May 10, 2012 · I am trying to setup up Amazon's EC2 service and am having some trouble. I have downloaded the Amazon EC2 API Tools, which I've put in a folder ~/.ec2 along with my .cert and .pemfiles.

In addition, there's Cloud42, but while all of these tools, along with Amazon's new official Java API interface are quite nice, none of them (except Rightscale, which is awesome, but very incompatible with what I'm doing, sadly) have any sort of functionality remotely close to properly managing an application launch on the cloud.

For the record: the "minimal" variant of Amazon Linux does not have the full suite of CLI tools. Doing a yum install ec2-tools didn't get me what I wanted, so I just created a new instance with the non-minimal AMI. I also found that this minimal Linux isn't any more space-efficient, at least as originally configured; the additional 6 GB that ...

Oct 20, 2014 · Ec2 cli tools are old and are not maintained by AWS anymore. Use aws-cli instead. Refer this link which details how to set-up and configure aws-cli. using aws-cli, its a one time installation which support almost all the AWS Services. with older CLI tools, you had to configure CLI for each and every service seperately.

Aug 31, 2015 · The Python tools are a newer, unified replacement for all the old service-specific command line tools. For example the java tool you linked to only supports the EC2 service, while the Python tools support all AWS services.

Apr 22, 2021 · Final list of modules to install: (AWS.Tools.S3) VERBOSE: [Install-AWSToolsModule] Create folder for temporary repository C:\Windows\TEMP\q3a2lhx5.t03 VERBOSE: [Install-AWSToolsModule] Registering temporary repository AWSToolsTemp VERBOSE: [Install-AWSToolsModule] Downloading modules to temporary repository VERBOSE: [Install-AWSToolsModule ...