aws ec2 tools version
11 February 2016 · Filed in InfrastructureI've been coding a puppet module to install/update the aws EC2 tools on centos.
These are already installed on Amazon Linux servers, and as it happens, on the core AMI used by the business.
The trouble I had was determining the version of the tools that was installed if any. This led to some frustration as the newer features such as
ec2-copy-snapshot --encrypted
are not present in the previous versions of the tools.
well I was very pleased with myself when i found a command to run that told me the version.
ec2-cmd ShowVersion
Certainly not following the standard of --version or similar, but there is it.
The version (as of Feb 2016) is 1.7.5.1 and latest is available here.
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