Setting a permanent Windows Hostname on EC2

11 Responses to “Setting a permanent Windows Hostname on EC2”

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• Paras Jethwani

  Mon, 03 May 2010 22:28:18 +0000 at 10:28 pm

  Good one,

  This behaviour of Amazon EC2 – Windows based hosts – caused us a lot of headache because our software stack was sensitive to host name changes
• Stu

  Wed, 18 May 2011 08:54:46 +0000 at 8:54 am

  Thanks. I hadn’t seen this setting!
• Kirk

  Wed, 25 May 2011 12:20:32 +0000 at 12:20 pm

  Thanks for the tip! Is there a way to permanently associate an Elastic IP address with an instance too so that I don’t have to associate it each time I start the instance?
• Gonzalo

  Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:26:41 +0000 at 8:26 am

  Is there a way to make this change programmatically?
• Matt Brotherson

  Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:14:58 +0000 at 2:14 pm

  Cheers mate! This is what I needed.
• PMM

  Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:56:38 +0000 at 8:56 pm

  Hi btm.geek,

  Thanks for the inputs, we’ve been searching for this answer since last year.

  Maraming Salamat! (Thank you very much!)
• Lou

  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:38:34 +0000 at 1:38 pm

  What do you mean by “Start Menu”? I’m not finding this or a reference to ‘EC2ConfigService’.
• Strob

  Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:55:54 +0000 at 6:55 pm

  The only problem is that all instance created from that AMI will have the same name…

  I did that and now I can’t revert to the prior behavior… even if I check back the check box on it still keeps the name I gave it… I want to get the instances name by the ip back.
• Darko

  Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:50:18 +0000 at 8:50 am

  Wish I knew this before, arghhhhhhhh!
• Brian Towers

  Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:03:16 +0000 at 3:03 am

  Strob:”The only problem is that all instance created from that AMI will have the same name”

  So go into Control Panel/System and change the name by hand to whatever you want.
• isoXen

  Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:43:50 +0000 at 3:43 pm

  Awesome. hit the spot