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Sets off a notification when you forget too many EC2 instances running.
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awsalert.py
import boto
import commands
# running instances threshold
limit = 4
conn = boto.connect_ec2('KEY','SECRET_KEY')
instances = conn.get_all_instance_status()
if (len(instances) > limit):
commands.getstatusoutput('terminal-notifier -message "Too many running instances: '+str(len(instances))+'" -title "Ec2 Alert"')
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