Amazon EC2 code examples for the SDK for Ruby

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for Ruby to work with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

⚠ Important

• Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account. For more details, see AWS Pricing and Free Tier.
• Running the tests might result in charges to your AWS account.
• We recommend that you grant your code least privilege. At most, grant only the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant least privilege.
• This code is not tested in every AWS Region. For more information, see AWS Regional Services.

Code examples

Prerequisites

For prerequisites, see the README in the ruby folder.

Get started

• Hello Amazon EC2 (DescribeSecurityGroups)

Single actions

Code excerpts that show you how to call individual service functions.

• AllocateAddress
• AssociateAddress
• CreateKeyPair
• CreateRouteTable
• CreateSecurityGroup
• CreateSubnet
• CreateVpc
• DescribeInstances
• DescribeRegions
• ReleaseAddress
• StartInstances
• StopInstances
• TerminateInstances

Run the examples

Instructions

The quickest way to interact with this example code is to invoke a Scenario from your command line. For example, ruby some_scenario.rb will invoke some_scenario.rb.

Hello Amazon EC2

This example shows you how to get started using Amazon EC2.

ruby hello/hello_ec2.rb

Tests

⚠ Running tests might result in charges to your AWS account.

To find instructions for running these tests, see the README in the ruby folder.

Contribute

Code examples thrive on community contribution.

To learn more about the contributing process, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Additional resources

• Amazon EC2 User Guide
• Amazon EC2 API Reference
• SDK for Ruby Amazon EC2 reference

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