Chef Knife AWS EC2 instances elastic IPs

Question

I will need to spin multiple elastic ips to create accounts from sites.

I plan to do this using either aws ec2 API or building chef cookbooks.

I wonder whether it's a good solution to use chef cookbooks to do this task.

Answer 1

I would generally avoid using Chef for scripting changes to your AWS resources. If you are looking for more automation than the EC2 API provides, you might like to take a look at CloudFormation.