How to use IBM App Connect with Amazon EC2
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web-based service that provides scalable computing capacity that allows businesses to run application programs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
App Connect
Enterprise as a Service connector-
Local
connector in containers (Continuous Delivery release) 12.0.5.0-r4 or later -
Local connector in containers (Long Term Support Cycle-2 release)
Supported product and API versions
To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.
Connecting to Amazon EC2
Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer page or flow editor. If necessary, work with your Amazon EC2 administrator to obtain these values.
| Connection field | Description |
|---|---|
| Secret access key | The secret access key of your Amazon EC2 account. Get the secret access key from the Security Credentials page in the AWS Management Console. |
| Access key ID | The access key ID of your Amazon EC2 account. Get the access key ID from the Security Credentials page in the AWS Management Console. |
| Region | The region of your Amazon EC2 instance, for example, us-east-1.
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To obtain the connection values for Amazon EC2, see Obtaining connection values for Amazon EC2.
To connect to an Amazon EC2 endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand Amazon EC2, then click Connect.
Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.
General considerations
Before you use App Connect Designer with Amazon EC2, take note of the following considerations:
- (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and
actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.
For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.
- (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.
Events and actions
Amazon EC2 events
These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.
Amazon EC2 actions
Your flow completes these actions on this application.
- Amazon Machine Images
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- Retrieve images
- Availability zones
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- Retrieve availability zones
- Instance types
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- Retrieve instance types
- Instances
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- Retrieve instances
- Launch instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Reboot instances
- Terminate instances
- Key pairs
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- Retrieve key pairs
- Launch templates
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- Retrieve launch templates
- Security groups
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- Retrieve security groups
Examples
Use templates to quickly create flows for Amazon EC2
Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that perform actions on Amazon EC2. For example, open the Templates gallery, and then search for Amazon EC2.
Use IBM® App Connect to build flows that integrate with Amazon EC2.
Read the blog in the IBM Community to learn how to stop, start or reboot the Amazon EC2 instance whenever a Zendesk Service ticket gets created. Click Read the blog to go to the blog.