Chapter 23. AWS EC2 Component

Available as of Camel version 2.16

The EC2 component supports create, run, start, stop and terminate AWS EC2 instances.

Prerequisites

You must have a valid Amazon Web Services developer account, and be signed up to use Amazon EC2. More information are available at Amazon EC2.

23.1. URI Format

aws-ec2://label[?options]

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, ?options=value&option2=value&…

The AWS EC2 component supports 5 options which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
configuration (advanced)	The AWS EC2 default configuration		EC2Configuration
region (producer)	The region in which EC2 client needs to work		String
accessKey (producer)	Amazon AWS Access Key		String
secretKey (producer)	Amazon AWS Secret Key		String
resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	boolean

The AWS EC2 endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

aws-ec2:label

with the following path and query parameters:

Name	Description	Default	Type
label	Required Logical name		String

Name	Description	Default	Type
accessKey (producer)	Amazon AWS Access Key		String
amazonEc2Client (producer)	To use a existing configured AmazonEC2Client as client		AmazonEC2Client
operation (producer)	Required The operation to perform. It can be createAndRunInstances, startInstances, stopInstances, terminateInstances, describeInstances, describeInstancesStatus, rebootInstances, monitorInstances, unmonitorInstances, createTags or deleteTags		EC2Operations
proxyHost (producer)	To define a proxy host when instantiating the EC2 client		String
proxyPort (producer)	To define a proxy port when instantiating the EC2 client		Integer
region (producer)	The region in which EC2 client needs to work		String
secretKey (producer)	Amazon AWS Secret Key		String
synchronous (advanced)	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).	false	boolean

Required EC2 component options

You have to provide the amazonEc2Client in the Registry or your accessKey and secretKey to access the Amazon EC2 service.

Header	Type	Description
`CamelAwsEC2ImageId`	`String`	An image ID of the AWS marketplace
`CamelAwsEC2InstanceType`	com.amazonaws.services.ec2.model.InstanceType	The instance type we want to create and run
`CamelAwsEC2Operation`	`String`	The operation we want to perform
`CamelAwsEC2InstanceMinCount`	`Int`	The mininum number of instances we want to run.
`CamelAwsEC2InstanceMaxCount`	`Int`	The maximum number of instances we want to run.
`CamelAwsEC2InstanceMonitoring`	Boolean	Define if we want the running instances to be monitored
`CamelAwsEC2InstanceEbsOptimized`	`Boolean`	Define if the creating instance is optimized for EBS I/O.
`CamelAwsEC2InstanceSecurityGroups`	Collection	The security groups to associate to the instances
`CamelAwsEC2InstancesIds`	`Collection`	A collection of instances IDS to execute start, stop, describe and terminate operations on.
`CamelAwsEC2InstancesTags`	`Collection`	A collection of tags to add or remove from EC2 resources

Dependencies

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml.

pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-aws</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>

where ${camel-version} must be replaced by the actual version of Camel (2.16 or higher).