Added awslib, for interacting with Amazon AWS.
diff --git a/planetstack/ec2_observer/awslib.py b/planetstack/ec2_observer/awslib.py
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+++ b/planetstack/ec2_observer/awslib.py
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+import os
+import json
+
+class AwsException(Exception):
+ pass
+
+def aws_run(cmd):
+ cmd = 'aws %s'%cmd
+ pipe = os.popen(cmd)
+ output_str = pipe.read()
+
+ if (not pipe.close()):
+ output = json.loads(output_str)
+ return output
+ else:
+ raise AwsException("Error: %s"%output_str)
+
+