NAME

Net::EC2::Tiny - Basic EC2 client

VERSION

version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

  use 5.014;
  use Net::EC2::Tiny;

  my $ec2 = Net::EC2::Tiny->new(
        AWSAccessKey => $ENV{AWS_ACCESS_KEY},
        AWSSecretKey => $ENV{AWS_SECRET_KEY}',
        region       => $ENV{AWS_REGION},
        debug        => 1,
  );

  # We are essentially encoding 'raw' EC2 API calls with a v2 
  # signature and turning XML responses into Perl data structures

  my $xml = $ec2->send(
        Action       => 'DescribeRegions',
        RegionName.1 => 'us-east-1',
  );

  # prints ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  say $xml->{regionInfo}->{item}->[0]->{regionEndpoint};

OVERVIEW

This module is intended to be a quick-n-dirty glue layer between a script and some Amazon EC2 API calls. Normally I'd use something like bash and curl for this, but Amazon's API signature requirements demand a little bit more than bash and curl doesn't support Amazon's signature schema.

All errors are fatal and reported via croak.

If you want to do "serious" development with the EC2 API, you probably ought to use something like Net::Amazon::EC2 or VM::EC2.

ATTRIBUTES

AWSAccessKey

This is the Amazon API access code. Required at object construction time.

AWSSecretKey

This is the Amazon API secret key. Required at object construction time.

debug

Set this to a true value if you want debugging information. Defaults to false.

version

This is the AWS EC2 API version. Defaults to 2012-07-20.

region

This is the EC2 region to which to make calls. Defaults to 'us-east-1'

base_url

This is the base URL used by the module to send encoded requests to. Defaults to https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com This attribute uses the region attribute automatically.

ua

The user agent object which sends requests. Defaults to HTTP::Tiny

METHODS

send

This method expects key/value pair list with a required 'Action' key set to a valid EC2 API call. Subsequent parameters in the list must be appropriate parameters for the specified Action.

The request will be signed with a valid v2 signature and submitted to AWS. The XML response will be turned into a Perl data structure using XML::Simple and returned.

SUPPORT

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-net-ec2-tiny at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Net-EC2-Tiny. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Or, if you wish, you may report bugs/features on Github's Issue Tracker. https://github.com/mrallen1/Net-EC2-Tiny/issues

SEE ALSO

This library is pretty useless without the EC2 API docs.

• EC2 API docs

AUTHOR

Mark Allen <mrallen1@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Mark Allen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Net::EC2::Tiny

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Net::EC2::Tiny