Welcome

This is the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Command Line Reference. It provides the syntax, description, options, and usage examples for each of the Amazon EC2 API tools and AMI tools. The API tools are commands that wrap the Amazon EC2 API actions. The AMI tools are commands you install and run on an instance for the purposes of managing AMIs. Often, these AMI tools are installed with the AMI.

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizeable computing capacity that you use to build and host your software systems.

	Note
	This guide also includes the commands for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). For more information about the service, go to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.

To download the Amazon EC2 API tools go to Amazon EC2 API Tools. To download the Amazon EC2 AMI tools go to Amazon EC2 AMI Tools.

Commands for AMI Tools	Alphabetical list of all Amazon EC2 AMI Tools commands.
Commands for API Tools	Alphabetical list of all Amazon EC2 API Tools commands.
Common Options for AMI Tools	Options that all AMI Tools commands can use.
Common Options for API Tools	Options that all API Tools commands can use.
Regions and Endpoints	Itemized regions and endpoints for all AWS products.