This is an interface to Amazon EC2 REST tools that follows the 2011-05-15 API. I created it because I needed access to the Tag and TagSet interfaces, and neither euca2ools nor Net::Amazon::EC2 provided this functionality. The core Amazon API is supported, but support for VPC, clusters, spot instances and reserved instances is incomplete. The module provides an extensible object-oriented interface as illustrated by the following code: # get new EC2 object my $ec2 = VM::EC2->new(-access_key => 'access key id', -secret_key => 'aws_secret_key', -endpoint => 'http://ec2.amazonaws.com'); # fetch an image by its ID my $image = $ec2->describe_images('ami-12345'); # get some information about the image my $architecture = $image->architecture; my $description = $image->description; my @devices = $image->blockDeviceMapping; for my $d (@devices) { print $d->deviceName,"\n"; print $d->snapshotId,"\n"; print $d->volumeSize,"\n"; } # run two instances my @instances = $image->run_instances(-key_name =>'My_key', -security_group=>'default', -min_count =>2, -instance_type => 't1.micro') or die $ec2->error_str; # wait for both instances to reach "running" or other terminal state $ec2->wait_for_instances(@instances); # print out both instance's current state and DNS name for my $i (@instances) { my $status = $i->current_status; my $dns = $i->dnsName; print "$i: [$status] $dns\n"; } # tag both instances with Role "server" foreach (@instances) {$_->add_tag(Role=>'server'); # stop both instances foreach (@instances) {$_->stop} $ec2->wait_for_instances(@instances); # wait till they stop # create an image from both instance, tag them, and make them public for my $i (@instances) { my $img = $i->create_image("Autoimage from $i","Test image"); $img->add_tags(Name => "Autoimage from $i", Role => 'Server', Status=> 'Production'); $img->make_public(1); } Copying AMIs Between Regions ---------------------------- This library provides a command-line script that makes it easy to move an EBS-backed Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from one region to another. migrate-ebs-image.pl --from us-east-1 --to ap-southeast-1 ami-123456 This script will be installed for you when you install the library. Development and bug reports --------------------------- This module is supported using GitHub at https://github.com/lstein/LibVM-EC2-Perl. To report a bug please open the Issues tag and file a bug report using the "New Issue" button. To contribute to development of this module, please obtain a github account for yourself and then either: 1) Fork a copy of the repository, make your changes against this repository, and send a pull request to me to incorporate your changes. 2) Contact me by email and ask for push privileges on the repository. See http://help.github.com/ for help getting started. Lincoln D. Stein 27 July 2012