Thanks Chris for this. I'd agree with all the descriptions other than availability zone which I'm not sure whether setting it to 'us-east-1' is correct, since we validate these against the iaas.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:24 AM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to provide some more information on EC2 configuration. > Do the following descriptions make sense? > > ec2_identity > Can be found in the AWS management console Security Credentials > section, when you > create a new access key. > This value refers to the new key's "Access Key ID" > > ec2_credential > Can be found in the AWS management console Security Credentials > section, when you > create a new access key. > This value refers to the new key's "Secret Access Key" > > ec2_keypair_name > This is set to the name of a keypair that you have created, for example in > the > EC2 section of the AWS management console. > > ec2_owner_id > Can be found in the AWS management console, in the Account Management > Section. > This item is labelled "Account Number" in the console. > > ec2_availability_zone > Used to determine the amazon zone for your instances. > This can be set to 'us-east-1' if you are unsure what to use. > > ec2_security_groups > This can be set to 'default' if you are unsure what value to use. > -- Best Regards, Nirmal Nirmal Fernando. PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
