Creating an EC2 Instance With Fabric/Boto Aug 9th, 2012 Lately i’ve been learning about networking/HTTP/various inner workings of the internet, so I’ve been working with AWS. I would like to share a script with you that I wrote to spin up EC2 instances. What is EC2? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a branch of AWS (Amazon Web Services) that allows you to rent virtual computers “in the cloud.” For o