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Amazon AWS Cloud Formation

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Amazon has just announced the new feature, where most of services are consolidate and using templates. Cool.

“Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

We’re excited to introduce AWS CloudFormation, a new service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Customers can use AWS CloudFormation sample templates or create their own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run their application. CloudFormation takes care of provisioning your resources for you. AWS CloudFormation can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, CloudFormation command line tools or APIs. The service is available at no additional charge and customers pay only for the AWS resources required to run the application. To get started using AWS CloudFormation, visit http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/.
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LittleChef to use SSH keypair

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I found out littlechef from Grig’s post. Thanks to both Grig and to Miguel for the tool and good writeup.

I added some lines to work with the new feature of littlechef about the SSH keypair. Now I can login to my Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instances by specifying the keypair-path on the auth.conf:

[userinfo]
user = ubuntu
password = 
keypair-file =  /home/cocoy/.ssh/id-rsa.pub

Hope that works well for others. The gist is shown below: