AWS API command-line toolsAmazon offers command-line tools for most of its services such as EC2 and RDS. EC2: Robert Sosinovski published very good instructions for starting with Amazon EC2 command-line tools (which isn???t specific to Mac OS X despite its title) back in 2008 but they are still valid so just follow them, there is no point in repeating them here (basically download, unpack, set env