The Amazon EC2 API allows developers to launch and control instances from their own programs. This API follows the SOAP and WSDL standards, making it accessible from any language for which suitable libraries exist.
This section discusses the messages available in the Amazon EC2 SOAP API, the semantics of those calls and the parameters that must be supplied. Examples of SOAP requests and responses are also provided.
We recommend you familiarize yourself with the conventions we've used in describing the API.