Can we set easy-to-remember hostnames for EC2 instances?

Question

I\'m running a couple of standard Fedora instances on EC2. I feel the public hostnames of the instances assigned by Amazon are too weird and hard to remember. I\'d like to chang

Answer 1

Another way is to simply edit ~/.bashrc and prepend PS1 with the nickname of the machine.

Edit: perhaps more correctly, machine-wide, e.g. on the AWS Linux AMI (an example) (paste this into console or add to your arbitrary install .sh):

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/profile.d/ps1.sh
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  PS1="[\u@myinst1:\l \t \! \W]\\$ "
fi
EOF