Add support for Amazon EC2 Instances

[displague]

What problem are you facing?

Since MachineInstance was implemented in crossplane/crossplane#942 in support of crossplane/crossplane#286, https://github.com/packethost/stack-packet remains the only provider to implement this claim kind.

How could Crossplane help solve your problem?

EC2 VM Instances should be supported for abstracting MachineInstance resources between providers.

[milindchawre]

+1
Eagerly waiting for this feature. Just imagining what all cool things can be built once its implemented.

[afritzler]

@milindchawre same here! Machine instances + keypairs + EBS volumes + volume mounts would be pretty dope! 😎

[muvaf]

I just tested whether this could be achieved by ACK code generation. But it seems like AWS API named instance creation command as RunInstances instead of CreateInstances, which causes ACK not to recognize it as a resource. However, a lot of EC2 resource are recognized, like key pairs volumes etc. So, if anyone is interested, you all are welcome to contribute with this new and much easier process to add a new resource 🙂

[surenraju-zz]

It will be really awesome if we are able to create EC2 instance! Eagerly waiting for this feature!!

[JAditya1395]

Hi All, So its been quite a while since the last comment on this thread. I am still very curious and excited for this feature but unfortunately i can not find anything conclusive. Is there a dedicated timeline for its support because it will be super helpfuil

[jbw976]

Thanks for weighing in on this issue @JAditya1395 and @surenraju!

@tnthornton has started working on this issue and has a draft PR open in #777 🎉

[JAditya1395]

@jbw976 Thanks for the acknowledgement.
@tnthornton Great work Taylor. I am looking forward to this feature. I can see this i still a WIP but do we have any rough timeline where we can see this feature in the near future.

[tnthornton]

I can see this i still a WIP but do we have any rough timeline where we can see this feature in the near future.

FWIW, I just moved the PR out of draft state. I'll keep a close eye on PR comments so we can keep this moving along.