Amazon has introduced a new command line interface which interfaces with several of the services they provide. Let’s take a look at installing it.

Normally s3curl.pl does not use the credentials from IAM roles, however it can be done.

In this article, we will show how to convert an EBS backed AMI into an Instance Store AMI.

If you use pump/distcc and therefore cannot use “-mtune=native” in make.conf; or you just want to know what those values mean, read on for the one-liners to run and find out!

Moving an EC2 Instance Store AMI from one region to another is fairly straightforward and much easier than an EBS backed AMI.