Amazon EC2 code examples for the SDK for Swift

Overview

Shows how to use the AWS SDK for Swift 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 swift folder.

Get started

• Hello Amazon EC2 (DescribeSecurityGroups)

Basics

Code examples that show you how to perform the essential operations within a service.

• Learn the basics

Single actions

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

• AllocateAddress
• AssociateAddress
• AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress
• CreateKeyPair
• CreateSecurityGroup
• DeleteKeyPair
• DeleteSecurityGroup
• DescribeImages
• DescribeInstanceTypes
• DescribeKeyPairs
• DescribeSecurityGroups
• DisassociateAddress
• ReleaseAddress
• RunInstances
• StartInstances
• StopInstances
• TerminateInstances

Run the examples

Instructions

To build any of these examples from a terminal window, navigate into its directory, then use the following command:

$ swift build

To build one of these examples in Xcode, navigate to the example's directory (such as the ListUsers directory, to build that example). Then type xed. to open the example directory in Xcode. You can then use standard Xcode build and run commands.

Hello Amazon EC2

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

Learn the basics

This example shows you how to do the following:

• Create a key pair and security group.
• Select an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and compatible instance type, then create an instance.
• Stop and restart the instance.
• Associate an Elastic IP address with your instance.
• Connect to your instance with SSH, then clean up resources.

Tests

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

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

Additional resources

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

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