minimal Amazon EC2 startup script in boto/python

minimal.py

import time
from boto import ec2

it = 't1.micro'
# it = 'm1.small'
ami = "ami-137bcf7a" # ubuntu 12.04
instance_name = "myInstance"
security_group = "quicklaunch-0"
# elastic_ip = "1.2.3.4"

ec2c = ec2.connection.EC2Connection('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID','AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')

user_data = """
wont work on ubuntu
"""

r = ec2c.run_instances(ami, instance_type=it, key_name=keypair, user_data=user_data, security_groups=[security_group])

time.sleep(5)
i = r.instances[-1]

ec2c.create_tags([i.id], {"Name": instance_name})

print "waiting for AMI to start ..."
while not i.update() == 'running':
    print ".",
    time.sleep(2)

print " ... success!"
print i.ip_address

# print "associated elastic IP?"
# print ec2c.associate_address(i.id, elastic_ip)