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Managing AWS EC2 Resource Using MechCloud AWS AI Agent
by MechCloud Team

Managing AWS EC2 Resource Using MechCloud AWS AI Agent

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Why use MechCloud AWS AI Agent?

There are multiple tools which you can use to manage AWS infrastructure. These tools are either general purpose IaC tools (e.g. terraform, opentofu, crossplane, pulumi), which work across providers, or specific to a cloud provider (e.g. cloudformation, cdk for AWS).

At MechCloud we are doing things differently which are difficult to find elsewhere. While the complexity of managing cloud infrastructure with general purpose IaC or cloud provider specific tools is increasing day by day, we are working towards making it simple for anyone who wants to manage their AWS infrastructure without learning a number of cli tools or SDKs or something else.

With MechCloud, you need not to worry about installing a tool and upgrading it from time to time. Also there is no pain of upgrading providers from time to time which in case of terraform is a maintenance nightmare.

MechCloud integration with AWS works without storing AWS API credentials and so you need not to worry about your AWS API credentials leaking from MechCloud resulting in a huge AWS bill. You will need to configure MechCloud IdP as an identity provider in AWS in order to make this integration work without AWS API credentials. Instructions for same can be found here.

This blog post describes the prompts which one can use to manage AWS EC2 resources (vpc, subnet, vm etc) using MechCloud AI Agent for AWS.

This agent now has support for the following ec2 operations (this list will be updated from time to time as we add support for more operations) -

  • Creating a vpc

  • Listing vpcs

  • Creating a subnet

  • Listing subnets

  • Listing instances types (e.g. t2.micro)

  • Provisioning one or more ec2 VMs

  • Starting/stopping one or more ec2 VMs

Supported operations

Creating a vpc

Required permissions

  • ec2:CreateVpc

Prompt examples

create a vpc with '10.101.0.0/16' cidr

Listing vpcs

Required permissions

  • ec2:DescribeVpcs

Prompt examples

list all the vpcs

list all the vpcs which are not default

Creating a subnet

Required permissions

  • ec2:CreateSubnet

Prompt examples

create a subnet with '10.101.1.0/24' cidr

Listing subnets

Required permissions

  • ec2:DescribeSubnets

Prompt examples

list all the subnets

list all the subnets which are not default

list all the subnets under '<vpc_id>' vpc

Describe instance types (e.g t2.micro)

Prompt examples

list all the instance types which are free tier eligible

Provisioning more or more ec2 VMs

Prompt examples

Provision an ec2 vm with following details -
subnet id - <subnet id>
ami id - <ami id>
instance type - t2.micro
min count - 1
max count - 1

Starting/stopping one or more ec2 VMs

Prompt examples

Start ec2 vms with following ids -
<vm1 id>
<vm2 id>

Stop ec2 vms with following ids -
<vm1 id>
<vm2 id>

Docs

Demo

https://youtu.be/43yYsUtn7wM

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