Welcome to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Developers Guide.
This guide picks up where the Getting Started Guide ends and will provide you with the information necessary for creating more sophisticated AMIs, using advanced service features, and writing applications using Amazon EC2. This guide assumes you have worked through the Getting Started Guide, installed the command line and API tools as described, and have a general understanding of the service.
The chapters presented in the guide are as follows :
Chapter 2, Creating and Bundling AMIs walks you through the steps required to create the customized package of software that will execute on your host - essentially packaging your desired Operating System configuration.
Chapter 3, Securing the Network provides an overview of the distributed firewall and usage examples.
Chapter 4, Using Instances provides an overview of the Amazon EC2 instances and some tips for using them effectively.
Chapter 5, Command Line Tool Reference provides a comprehensive reference to the command line tools supplied by Amazon EC2.
Chapter 6, Using the SOAP API explains how to use the WS-SOAP interface to Amazon EC2.
Chapter 7, API Reference provides a comprehensive reference to the web services (SOAP) API exposed by Amazon EC2.
Chapter 8, Technical FAQ is a collection of interesting and commonly asked questions.