The problem
Booting instances on EC2 is easy. But once it comes to connecting to them, you end
up having to copy around transient and unwieldy ec2-....compute.amazonaws.com
host names.
So you manually set up a CNAME in your DNS to give the instance a friendly name, but as soon as you stop and restart the instance, the ec2 name has changed so your DNS record needs updating.
Rapidly gets tedious!
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