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Programmatic access to Amazon EC2 - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Programmatic access to Amazon EC2

You can create and manage your Amazon EC2 resources using the Amazon Web Services Management Console or a programmatic interface. For information about using the Amazon EC2 console, see the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

How it works
Programmatic interfaces
Getting started
Monitoring