EC2 one liners for setting up / breaking down machines

ec2.sh

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

# create an ec2-instance and grab the instance id 
instance_id=$(ec2-run-instances -g development -t t1.micro -k master $EC2_UBUNTU_AMI | grep INSTANCE | awk '{ print $2 }')

# create a tag for this instance as needed
ec2-create-tags -t Name=development $instance_id

# grab instance_id by tag
instance_id=$(ec2-describe-instances --filter "tag:Name=development" | grep INSTANCE | awk '{ print $2 }')

# grab all running instances (ids)
instance_id=$(ec2-describe-instances --filter "instance-state-name=running" | grep INSTANCE | awk '{ print $2 }')

# now start this instance
ec2-start-instances $instance_id

# stop the same instance
ec2-stop-instances $instance_id

# terminate the instance
ec2-terminate-instances $instance_id