Create EC2 instance with name

Here's a small bash script to launch an EC2 instance with a particular name. The idea is to launch an instance and get its id from stdout, then apply the name tag to instance. Pretty simple.


num_instances=$1
instance_name=$2
instance_id=`ec2-run-instances -n $num_instances -g default -k keyname -t m1.medium -z us-east-1d ami-3d4ff254 | sed -n 2p | awk '{print $2}' `
echo "Created instance with id $instance_id"
ec2addtag $instance_id --tag Name=$instance_name
echo "Renamed instance $instance_id to $instance_name"