Is there an easy way to connect to EC2 instances using their Name tag?

amazon-ec2, ssh

Solution

I wrote a little bash script which uses `aws-cli` (thanks @Ryan Parman) to find the correct machine IP and PEM from the machine name:

http://sash.agassi.co.il/

To use it simply call

sash <machine-name>

I've also added more features to it like `upload`, `download`, and multiplex connect...

Problem

Our team is working on AWS, where we have lots of instances, which we keep adding and removing. Each instance has a logical name, which helps us know what it does as well as finding it. When we want to connect to one, though, we either need to update the `~/.ssh/config` file all the time, or go to the web console, find the instance by its name, copying its IP and only then we can run it using: ``` ssh -i ~/.aws/my-pem-file.pem ubuntu@ec2-111-111-111-111.compute-1.amazonaws.com ``` I was wandering whether there is an easier way to do it, where you could specify the machine name, and EC2 would do the rest? Something like ``` ssh-aws my-machine-name ```

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