Can we set easy-to-remember hostnames for EC2 instances?

Question

I\'m running a couple of standard Fedora instances on EC2. I feel the public hostnames of the instances assigned by Amazon are too weird and hard to remember. I\'d like to chang

Answer 1

sudo hostname *yourdesiredhostnamehere*

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

then the hostname is changed. On my server all other services like apache and postfix works. Server is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS