saltstack/salt-cloud — pull request #483 by toppur (2013-03-30 06:33:08+00:00)
Title: EC2 instance provisioning is incomplete and does not set Name tag (https://github.com/saltstack/salt-cloud/issues/478)

Queries to list EC2 instances return a dict but could return a list for stopped instances. Need to hand both. See the issue cited above for example error messages in the log .