If you've spent much time working within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, you've probably found that some tasks, such as creating new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud 2 (EC2) instances, can be ...

Brien Posey shows how to access EC2 virtual machine instances through the use of key pairs via the AWS CLI or PowerShell.

What I do for instances that require an EIP is add a bootup script that utilises the command line EC2 tools to assign the IP to the instance, so they end up being more like a traditional server that ...