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Amazon Resource Tagging

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After several years of waiting, Amazon now has new feature to tag instances, volumes, and other resources. Need to check it out? Amazon EC2 Resource Tagging

Simple test with Tagging an EC2 instance and an EBS volume.

1. Download the latest API tools here

2. In your terminal update the variable EC2_HOME and PATH: 

 shell_prompt$ export EC2_HOME=/Applications/ec2/ec2-api-tools-1.3-57419
 shell_prompt$ export PATH=$EC2_HOME/bin:$PATH
 shell_prompt$ ec2_version 
 1.3-57419 2010-08-31

3. Now for the tagging(just replace the instance-id and volume-id): 

shell_prompt$ ec2-create-tags i-12345678 vol-12345678 -t webserver=host2
TAG	instance	 i-12345678	webserver	host2
TAG	volume	vol-12345678	webserver	host2

shell_prompt$ ec2-describe-tags
TAG	volume	vol-12345678	webserver	host2
TAG	instance	 i-12345678	webserver	host2

I’m now looking for a way to tag my current instances probably by writing a script.
Happy tagging.

Amazon RDS newly Added Features

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Reserved DB Instances:

“You can now make a one-time, up-front payment to create a one or three year reservation to run your DB Instance in a specific Region and receive a significant discount off of the ongoing hourly usage charge.” –Amazon
See: Announcing DB Engine Version Management, MySQL 5.1.49 with InnoDB Plugin

DB Engine Version Management:

“Now, DB Engine Version Management gives you optional control over which Amazon RDS supported MySQL version powers your DB Instance and support for MySQL 5.1.49 with InnoDB Plugin.” –Amazon
See: Amazon RDS adds new Reserved Database Instance option