Running Amazon EC2 instances with Golang

run_ec2_instance.go

// from: http://maicon.io/golang-running-aws-ec2-instances.html
package main
 
import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
 
	aws "github.com/goamz/goamz/aws"
	ec2 "github.com/goamz/goamz/ec2"
)
 
func main() {
	//Get environment variables
	awsAccessKey := os.Getenv("MY_AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
	awsSecretKey := os.Getenv("MY_AWS_SECRET_KEY")
 
	if awsAccessKey == "" || awsSecretKey == "" {
		fmt.Printf("MY_AWS_ACCESS_KEY or MY_AWS_SECRET_KEY not found... Exiting.\n")
	} else {
		//authorization
		auth := aws.Auth{AccessKey: awsAccessKey, SecretKey: awsSecretKey}
 
		//instanciate the ec2 object for USEast region
		ec2use := ec2.New(auth, aws.USEast)
 
		instanceOptions := &ec2.RunInstancesOptions{
			ImageId:          "ami-000000000", //your ami ID
			MinCount:         1,
			MaxCount:         1,
			KeyName:          "your-ec2-key-par-name",
			InstanceType:     "t1.micro",
			SecurityGroups:   []ec2.SecurityGroup{}, //default security group
			AvailabilityZone: "us-east-1a",
			SubnetId:         "your-subnet-id"}
 
		resp, err := ec2use.RunInstances(instanceOptions)
		if err == nil {
			fmt.Printf("Instance created %v \n", resp.Instances[0].InstanceId)
		} else {
			fmt.Printf("Error while creating instance: %v \n", err)
		}
	}
}

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