Working with Amazon EC2 - Amazon SDK for .NET
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Working with Amazon EC2

The Amazon SDK for .NET supports Amazon EC2, which is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity. You use this computing capacity to build and host your software systems.

APIs

The Amazon SDK for .NET provides APIs for Amazon EC2 clients. The APIs enable you to work with EC2 features such as security groups and key pairs. The APIs also enable you to control Amazon EC2 instances. This section contains a small number of examples that show you the patterns you can follow when working with these APIs. To view the full set of APIs, see the Amazon SDK for .NET API Reference (and scroll to "Amazon.EC2").

The Amazon EC2 APIs are provided by the AWSSDK.EC2 NuGet package.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, be sure you have set up your environment and project. Also review the information in SDK features.

About the examples

The examples in this section show you how to work with Amazon EC2 clients and manage Amazon EC2 instances.

The EC2 Spot Instance tutorial shows you how to request Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Spot Instances enable you to access unused EC2 capacity for less than the On-Demand price.