Issues trying to SSH into a fresh EC2 instance with Paramiko

Question

I\'m working on a script that spins up a fresh EC2 instance with boto and uses the Paramiko SSH client to execute remote commands on the instance. For whatever reason, the Param

Answer 1

Why not use boto.manage.cmdshell instead?

cmd = boto.manage.cmdshell.sshclient_from_instance(instance,
                                                   key_path,
                                                   user_name='ec2_user')

(code taken from line 152 in ec2_launch_instance.py)

For available cmdshell commands have a look at the SSHClient class from cmdshell.py.