[cs615asa] EC2_BACKUP_FLAGS_AWS question

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Fri Apr 10 16:53:28 EDT 2015


wzhang32 <wzhang32 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>   As it's said before, we can create a suitable instance for backup ec2  
> volume. However, the "--key-name" and "--security-group" is a mandatory  

I don't believe they should be mandatory.  I believe that AWS can be
configured to use defaults if no keypair or security-group is given:

$ aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-3b361952 >/dev/null 2>&1
$ echo $?
0

-Jan


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