What is Amazon Ec2?
Amazon EC2 is a web service that enables you to launch and manage server instances in
Amazon's data centers using APIs or available tools and utilities.
You can use Amazon EC2 server instances at any time, for as long as you need, and for
any legal purpose.
Static Methods
To make using the Ec2 class easier to use there are two static methods that can be
invoked from any of the Ec2 Elements. The first static method is setKeys
which will defind you AWS Access Keys as default keys. When you then
create any new object you don't need to pass in any keys to the constructor.
Example #1 setKeys() Example
Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Ebs::setKeys('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
To set the region that you are working in you can call the setRegion
to set
which Amazon Ec2 Region you are working in. Currently there is only two region available
us-east-1 and eu-west-1. If an invalid value is passed it will throw an exception
stating that.
Example #2 setRegion() Example
Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Ebs::setRegion('us-east-1');
Note: Set Amazon Ec2 Region
Alternativly you can set the region when you create each class as the third
parameter in the constructor method.