These are some AWS scripts that I use for maintaining a set of EC2
instances that stretches over several regions. They are meant to
address several deficiencies in the AWS APIs and the awscli utility:
- the scripts allow some queries and commands to be executed across
multiple regions, unlike
awscli - the scripts mitigate the difficulty created by the restrictions around security groups (being restricted to one region or VPC)
These are Python 2.7 scripts and they assume you have the boto3 and
ipcalc packages installed. You can use pip to install those
packages. (On Windows, make sure 2.7.9+ is installed and execute
python -m pip install ipcalc boto3.)
The scripts require an AWS access key. You can provide the key on
the command line, but for security and convenience, use awscli and
execute aws configure to create a credentials file from which the
scripts will draw your credentials.
Note that the scripts generally ignore the region preference you set
with aws configure and by default operate on all EC2 regions.
For each script, execute
$ ./ec2_script_name.py --help
to print a help message describing how to use it.