I can't say as though I share the OP's sentiment wrt the Amazon API, or at least the boto Python bindings. It's a bit silly that I have to fetch all my instance

I can't say as though I share the OP's sentiment wrt the Amazon API, or at least the boto Python bindings. It's a bit silly that I have to fetch all my instances (or, at best, all instances in a region, but all ours are in a single region) to operate on a single one. Other than that though, what functionality I've used in boto has been straightforward. Also I kind of lost the thread on what this blog post was about. I'd have liked to see firmer examples of economy of words/commands in API construction, as I'm working on an API myself right now.