From f4a7946634dc70faa2d5d8c2ad52f22bc88947e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: orrym <orrym@vatit.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 20:48:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-1572: Use instance ID of newly created instance for the
 rest of the examples

---
 aws/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ec2/EC2Application.java | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aws/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ec2/EC2Application.java b/aws/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ec2/EC2Application.java
index 62179145f9..6876eb7369 100644
--- a/aws/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ec2/EC2Application.java
+++ b/aws/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ec2/EC2Application.java
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ public class EC2Application {
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
-
-        String yourInstanceId = "<you-instance>";
-        
+       
         // 0) - Set up the client
         AmazonEC2 ec2Client = AmazonEC2ClientBuilder.standard()
             .withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(credentials))
@@ -91,7 +89,7 @@ public class EC2Application {
             .withKeyName("baeldung-key-pair") // optional - if not present, can't connect to instance
             .withSecurityGroups("BaeldungSecurityGroup");
 
-        ec2Client.runInstances(runInstancesRequest);
+        String yourInstanceId = ec2Client.runInstances(runInstancesRequest).getReservation().getInstances().get(0).getInstanceId();
 
         // 6) Monitor Instances
         MonitorInstancesRequest monitorInstancesRequest = new MonitorInstancesRequest()