amazon-ec2

amazon-ec2 is a cursor rule for coding agents from sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc. It costs 2,239 tokens per session, scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A set of rules for deploying and managing Amazon EC2, AWS's service for running virtual computers in the cloud. It requires defining infrastructure with code, especially modular AWS CloudFormation templates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing EC2 deployments, CloudFormation stacks, networks, security groups, IAM roles, instance settings, and operational practices.
Why use it?
It makes servers repeatable and reviewable instead of relying on manual setup. The guidance also addresses security, cost control, and separating networking, access permissions, and server definitions.

Cursor rule

About the project

awesome-cursor-rules-mdc is a generator that creates Cursor MDC rule files from structured library information, using semantic search and language models to gather and organize guidance. Developers use it to produce reusable rules for libraries in Cursor, and the catalogue includes 200 of those rules.

sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc · 3,571 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc/amazon-ec2
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc

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Per session 2,239 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,239 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02239 $0.02239
Opus 5 $0.01120 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00448 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00224 $0.00224

Measured 5d ago against content hash c35bac808998, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amazon-ec2 scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

rules-mdc/amazon-ec2.mdc · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

amazon-ec2 Best Practices

Treat every EC2 instance as versioned, secured, and continuously optimized code. Adhere strictly to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP).

1. Code Organization and Structure

Always define EC2 resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). CloudFormation is the standard for AWS-native deployments. Break down templates into modular, reusable components.

1.1. Modular CloudFormation Templates

Organize your CloudFormation templates logically. Separate networking, IAM, and EC2 instance definitions into distinct, composable stacks or modules.

BAD: Monolithic Template

# all-in-one-stack.yaml
Resources:
  VPC: # ...
  Subnet: # ...
  SecurityGroup: # ...
  IAMRole: # ...
  EC2Instance: # ...

GOOD: Modular Stacks

# network-stack.yaml
Resources:
  VPC: # ...
  Subnet: # ...
Outputs: # Export VPC ID, Subnet IDs
# iam-stack.yaml
Resources:
  IAMRole: # ...
Outputs: # Export Role ARN
# ec2-instance-stack.yaml
Resources:
  EC2Instance:
    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
    Properties:
      ImageId: ami-0abcdef1234567890
      InstanceType: !Ref InstanceTypeParam
      SecurityGroupIds: [!ImportValue MySecurityGroup]
      IamInstanceProfile: !ImportValue MyInstanceProfile
      # ...

1.2. Enforce Consistent Tagging

Implement a unified tagging strategy from your IaC templates. Tags are critical for cost allocation, resource discovery, and automation.

BAD: Missing or Inconsistent Tags

EC2Instance:
  Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
  Properties:
    # ... no tags or only a few

GOOD: Mandatory Tags via IaC

EC2Instance:
  Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
  Properties:
    # ...
    Tags:
      - Key: Environment
        Value: !Ref EnvironmentTag
      - Key: Project
        Value: !Ref ProjectTag
      - Key: Owner
        Value: !Ref OwnerTag
      - Key: CostCenter
        Value: !Ref CostCenterTag

2. Common Patterns and Anti-patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 330 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c35bac808998

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amazon-ec2 is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sanjeed5/awesome-cursor-rules-mdc (3,571 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 2,239 tokens to every session, about $0.0112 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.