By accident, today I discovered an easy way how to determine how long ago your EC2 instance was started. Note that uptime shows time since last reboot, so it’s not what we get here. Here is a bash implementation.
How Long Ago Was This EC2 Instance Started?
June 4th, 2009 · by Dmitriy (@somic on Twitter) · No Comments
Tags: cloud computing
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