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      <diff>@@ -30,7 +30,16 @@ if ACCESS_KEY_ID.nil? || ACCESS_KEY_ID.empty?
   exit
 end
 
-ec2 = EC2::Base.new( :access_key_id =&gt; ACCESS_KEY_ID, :secret_access_key =&gt; SECRET_ACCESS_KEY )
+# us-east-1.ec2.amazonaws.com == ec2.amazonaws.com
+# eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com for the european region
+# test different servers by running something like:
+# export EC2_URL='https://ec2.amazonaws.com';./bin/ec2-gem-example.rb
+if ENV['EC2_URL']
+  ec2 = EC2::Base.new( :access_key_id =&gt; ACCESS_KEY_ID, :secret_access_key =&gt; SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, :server =&gt; URI.parse(ENV['EC2_URL']).host )
+else
+  # default server is US ec2.amazonaws.com
+  ec2 = EC2::Base.new( :access_key_id =&gt; ACCESS_KEY_ID, :secret_access_key =&gt; SECRET_ACCESS_KEY )
+end
 
 puts &quot;----- ec2.methods.sort -----&quot;
 p ec2.methods.sort</diff>
      <filename>bin/ec2-gem-example.rb</filename>
    </modified>
  </modified>
  <removed type="array"/>
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    <parent>
      <id>1cdd1c471255498eb22d53e99a77715bb93bd3c5</id>
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  <author>
    <name>Glenn Rempe</name>
    <email>glenn@rempe.us</email>
  </author>
  <url>http://github.com/grempe/amazon-ec2/commit/35868956ab890217be66823544232a219d91961b</url>
  <id>35868956ab890217be66823544232a219d91961b</id>
  <committed-date>2009-01-31T15:00:53-08:00</committed-date>
  <authored-date>2009-01-31T15:00:53-08:00</authored-date>
  <message>Let the example script take advantage of EC2_URL environment var if present.</message>
  <tree>67d7ff8f9f54adf987240dd22220aaa61405da63</tree>
  <committer>
    <name>Glenn Rempe</name>
    <email>glenn@rempe.us</email>
  </committer>
</commit>
