Minimal Fabric script to setup an AWS Ubuntu instance and run some commands on it

gistfile1.py

import time
from fabric.api import run, execute, task, settings, sudo
import boto.ec2


@task
def create_aws_server():
    conn = boto.ec2.connect_to_region('eu-west-1')

    reservation = conn.run_instances('ami-blabla',
            instance_type='t2.micro',
            security_group_ids=['sg-bladiebla'],
            key_name='nameofkey-given-inconsole'
    )

    instance = reservation.instances[0]

    while instance.state != 'running':
        time.sleep(3)
        instance.update()

    print '\nNow the state of the instance is: %s' % instance.state
    print 'Its IP address is: %s' % instance.ip_address

    with(settings(host_string=instance.public_dns_name, key_filename='/path/to/ssh/keys.pem', user='ubuntu', connection_attempts=10)):
        execute(install_apache)

    execute(install_apache)


def install_apache():
    sudo('apt-get update')
    sudo('apt-get install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-php5')