Can we set easy-to-remember hostnames for EC2 instances?

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I'm running a couple of standard Fedora instances on EC2. I feel the public hostnames of the instances assigned by Amazon are too weird and hard to remember. I'd like to change them to something short (like red/blue/green/etc).

Is there any draw back in doing this? And how do I set it up such that it persists after reboots?

Thanks.

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10 Answers

Sure, you can do that if you have your own domain (setup a CNAME to point to the Amazon hostname). Otherwise, you're pretty much stuck with the one they give you (or an Elastic IP, if you set one of those up).

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