10.1. Amazon Web Services EC2 Compatible Interface

CloudStack can translate Amazon Web Services (AWS) API calls to native CloudStack API calls so that users can continue using existing AWS-compatible tools. This translation service runs as a separate web application in the same tomcat server as the management server of CloudStack, listening on the same port. This Amazon EC2-compatible API is accessible through a SOAP web service.

Note

This service was previously enabled by separate software called CloudBridge. It is now fully integrated with the CloudStack management server.

Limitations

Supported only in zones that use basic networking.
Available in fresh installations of CloudStack. Not available through upgrade of previous versions.
If you need to support features such as elastic IP, set up a Citrix NetScaler to provide this service. The commands such as ec2-associate-address will not work without EIP setup. Users running VMs in this zone will be using the NetScaler-enabled network offering (DefaultSharedNetscalerEIP and ELBNetworkOffering).