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tagging instances

Copying ElasticFox Tags from One Browser to Another

July 15, 2009

The 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 [...]

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Tagging EC2 Instances Using Security Groups

June 30, 2009

So you have a bunch of instances running in Amazon EC2 and you want to be able to tell them apart easily. The way to do this is to “tag” each instance with a descriptive tag, such as “database”, “web server”, “memcached”, etc. The easy, human-friendly way to tag your instances is to use ElasticFox, [...]

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