Sorry for late reply. When using the python bindings, you could not simply request N instances using image ID X. You had to come up with an (account) unique n

Sorry for late reply. When using the python bindings, you could not simply request N instances using image ID X. You had to come up with an (account) unique name for each one, like webserver-01 and webserver-02. It is somewhat fundamentally anti "cattles not pets", which led to some weird code in libraries to try to pick IDs that were not used. My experience here is approximately 1 year old.