VBScript

EC2 Start Instances

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Demonstrates how to send a request to start Amazon EC2 instances. VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to the Amazon AWS server.
' such as https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
set authAws = CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
' the region should match the region part of the domain passed to the REST connect method (above).
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"
authAws.ServiceName = "ec2"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

success = rest.AddQueryParam("Action","StartInstances")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Version","2016-11-15")
' If DryRun is true then checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, 
' without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, 
' the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
' Omit the DryRun query parameter to actually start the instance.  (Or set DryRun equal to "false")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("DryRun","true")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("InstanceId.1","i-999719995399c9999")

responseXml = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    outFile.WriteLine("response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
    outFile.WriteLine("response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader)
    outFile.WriteLine("response body: " & responseXml)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Examine the successful XML response.
set xml = CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xml.LoadXml(responseXml)
outFile.WriteLine(xml.GetXml())

outFile.Close