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

If you don't want to mess with your DNS provider, you could use aliases for your instances. I was really surprised that Amazon didn't provide a way to give an alias for an EC2 instance when they came out with the AWS Management Console, but in the meantime, you could use the free RightScale service if you want the alias feature - much easier than remembering those Amazon instance IDs.