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by pycassa 1747 days ago
No need, just update ur tags on the web aws console
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Every EC2 instance has this thing called tags. Tags are just a list key value pairs u can give to most aws things. Usually the most common tag is name tag. Go to your EC2 console, just give ur instances a name.

In the launch wizard when u re launching a new instance, it gives u an option to set tags, just type in "Name" for key and "my instance" for value. U can either do that. Or after launching when it lists all ur instances u can just give ur instance a name in the first column

Oh, sorry. I dont understand the instructions very well. So I add a new tag with the access key as the name?

What about the value?

Ah yes, it's working now! Thanks!