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<sect1 id="zend.service.amazon.ec2" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
    <title>Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2</title>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.amazon.ec2.introduction">
        <title>Introduction</title>

        <para>
            <classname>Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2</classname> provides an interface to Amazon Elastic
            Clound Computing (EC2).
        </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.amazon.ec2.whatis">
        <title>What is Amazon Ec2?</title>

        <para>
            Amazon EC2 is a web service that enables you to launch and manage server instances in
            Amazon's data centers using <acronym>API</acronym>s or available tools and utilities.
            You can use Amazon EC2 server instances at any time, for as long as you need, and for
            any legal purpose.
        </para>
    </sect2>

    <sect2 id="zend.service.amazon.ec2.staticmethods">
        <title>Static Methods</title>

        <para>
            To make using the Ec2 class easier to use there are two static methods that can be
            invoked from any of the Ec2 Elements. The first static method is <code>setKeys</code>
            which will defind you <acronym>AWS</acronym> Access Keys as default keys. When you then
            create any new object you don't need to pass in any keys to the constructor.
        </para>

        <example id="zend.service.amazon.ec2.staticmethods.setkeys">
            <title>setKeys() Example</title>

            <programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Ebs::setKeys('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
]]></programlisting>
        </example>

        <para>
            To set the region that you are working in you can call the <code>setRegion</code> to set
            which Amazon Ec2 Region you are working in. Currently there is only two region available
            us-east-1 and eu-west-1. If an invalid value is passed it will throw an exception
            stating that.
        </para>

        <example id="zend.service.amazon.ec2.staticmethods.setregion">
            <title>setRegion() Example</title>

            <programlisting language="php"><![CDATA[
Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Ebs::setRegion('us-east-1');
]]></programlisting>
        </example>

        <note id="zend.service.amazon.ec2.staticmethods.setregion.note">
            <title>Set Amazon Ec2 Region</title>

            <para>
                Alternativly you can set the region when you create each class as the third
                parameter in the constructor method.
            </para>
        </note>
    </sect2>
</sect1>
