Do any AWS API scripts exist in a repository somewhere?

I want to start 10 instances, get their instance id's and get their private IP addresses.

I know this can be done using AWS CLI, I'm wondering if there are any such scripts already written so I don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Thanks

Solution

I recommend to use python and boto package for such automation. Python is more clear than bash. You can user following page as starting point: http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ec2_tut.html