we pick and click on ec (the second element on the leftmost column--this panel is shown as it was when this book was writtenamazon regularly makes minor changesso you may see something slightly differentwe now see the ec management console as shown in the following screenshotin the top-right corneryou can pick your region (see the amazon regions information boxnote that you will only see information about the region that you have selected at the moment thusif you mistakenly select the wrong region (or have machines running in multiple regions)they may not appear (from casual conversations with other programmersthis seems to be common pitfall of using the ec web management console