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Unrelated question: What do you use for communicating with EC2? Are you satifisfied with using their Java solution and the large installs for the JDK or installing scripting languages, e.g., like Python in order to use boto? Or have you written something smaller with less dependencies?
I use the Java EC2 tools when I need to script something (which is quite rare). Most of what I do with EC2 is manual, via the web console. If I needed to launch or reconfigure EC2 instances on a regular basis I might write my own API code, but right now that's not an issue for me.