Programmatic access to Amazon EC2

You can create and manage your Amazon EC2 resources using the AWS Management Console or a programmatic interface. For information about using the Amazon EC2 console, see the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

How it works

• Amazon EC2 endpoints

• Eventual consistency

• Idempotency

• Request throttling

Programmatic interfaces

• AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

• AWS CloudFormation

• AWS SDKs

• Low-level API

Getting started

• Code examples

• Console-to-Code

Monitoring

• AWS CloudTrail

• Monitor requests