This is a pretty complicated solution. There are a ton of easier ones, but probably the easiest is to just use ec2-ssh. It lets you apply tags to your ec2 ins

This is a pretty complicated solution. There are a ton of easier ones, but probably the easiest is to just use ec2-ssh. It lets you apply tags to your ec2 instances and ssh to them by very simple names. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ec2-ssh https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ec2-ssh