Added awslib, for interacting with Amazon AWS.

diff --git a/planetstack/ec2_observer/awslib.py b/planetstack/ec2_observer/awslib.py
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+++ b/planetstack/ec2_observer/awslib.py
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+import os
+import json
+
+class AwsException(Exception):
+       pass
+
+def aws_run(cmd):
+       cmd = 'aws %s'%cmd
+       pipe = os.popen(cmd)
+       output_str = pipe.read()
+
+       if (not pipe.close()):
+               output = json.loads(output_str)
+               return output
+       else:
+               raise AwsException("Error: %s"%output_str)
+
+