Launching and Using Instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2008-12-01

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Launching and Using Instances

Topics

Instance Usage
  • Instance Types
  • Instance Metadata
  • Instance Storage
  • Regions and Availability Zones
  • Using Shared AMIs
  • Paying for AMIs
  • Get Console Output and Reboot Instances

    • This section describes how to launch instances and retrieve instance-specific data from within the instance. It also covers launching shared AMIs and security risks associated with running shared AMIs.

    [Note] Note

    If you create an instance in one region, you cannot launch it in another region without migrating it. For information on regions, see Regions and Availability Zones. For information on migrating AMIs, see ec2-migrate-image.

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