July 15, 2009The ElasticFox Firefox extension allows you to tag EC2 instances, EBS volumes, EBS snapshots, Elastic IPs, and AMIs. ElasticFox’s tags are stored locally within Firefox, so if you use ElasticFox from more than one browser your tags from one browser are not visible in any other browser. In this article I demonstrate how to copy [...]
Read the full article → June 30, 2009Update September 2010: AWS has added support for tagging instances, volumes, snapshots, and many other EC2 resource types via the API and the AWS Management Console. The techniques described here are no longer necessary. So you have a bunch of instances running in Amazon EC2 and you want to be able to tell them apart [...]
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