Amazon Web Services offers a compute power on demand capability known as the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The server resources in the cloud can be provisioned on demand by making HTTP Query API calls to EC2.

This ‘amazon-ec2’ Ruby Gem is an interface library that can be used to interact with the Amazon EC2 system and control server resources on demand from your Ruby scripts, or from applications written in your Ruby framework of choice (Ruby on Rails, Merb, etc.).

For the most complete and up-to date README information please visit the project homepage at:

http://github.com/grempe/amazon-ec2/tree/master

or the EC2 website at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2