I hate AWS ec2 instanced with it shitty handling of environment variables...Why in hell it is so hard to set an environment variable which will be re-set in case the instance will be restarted? For hours I'm fighting through manuals and non of the described procedures work

@elgringo Thanks...actually I do not want to go via the ec2 tags...also as it would require me to place an additional config file with my AWS credentials as the lib is based on aws-sdk. I do not want to place any credentials in my code or config files. Further more I would like to have the possibility to do some start-up Scripting as well. After endless researches I found a Manual from AWS itself...where I first thought it must be a bad joke...but actually that solfed my issue. Ohhh man how much I miss the easy handling of Cloud foundry