The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is part of the Amazon Web Service cloud platform. EC2 offers computing power in the cloud, on demand. The 'Elastic' part of the name refers to the ability to scale both up and down, as needed.
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What's the best way to share source code between EC2 instances?
Currently I have 4 EC2 instances in amazon cloud behind a load balancer and this number will grow up to 20-30. I am looking for the best way to manage source code on all of these instances. There is a ...
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AWS - bigger EC2 instance or DB split
I am running a website of off an EC2 instance (small).
The memory on the instance is maxed out. (Mostly due to SQL server process).
I am thinking about either upgrading to a medium instance or staying ...
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Delete Amazon EC2 terminated instance
I created an Amazon Free tier Usage Account. I launched two amazon ec2 instances using the online tool. After that one instance was created and running while other was pending which quickly shifted to ...
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How can I determine what caused a sudden increase of traffic to my AWS servers?
I recently set up a cloud system on Amazon AWS for a big website. I usually use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy the application (written in Java Spring) and it's currently running on 4 micro instances.
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Broke my /etc/sudoers file on amazon EC2
I edited my Linux Amazon EC2 instance using vim /etc/sudoers and tried adding another account to the list. I realize now that this was a terrible mistake. I can no longer sudo from any account (which ...
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Geographic testing for latency
Really struggling to find tools that report latency loading a website from multiple geo-graphic locations.
Are there such tools? I have begun replicating infrastructure in other EC2 regions, but find ...
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deploying Python code with Puppet
I'm trying to implement a deployment system for my web application, based on Puppet.
The application consists of several services (a couple of web servers: Django- and Tornado-based and a worker ...
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How to add user with SFTP/ FTP access to '/var/www/html/website_abc' folder on Amazon EC2 Centos? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux directory permissions
I'm working with some third-party developers and I would like to grant SFTP (or FTP) access to the root folder for a website they're working ...
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How do you set up dynamic cname records?
The project I'm working on requires that we mask AWS EC2 host names with our own subdomains.
For example:
ec2-176-34-163-40.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
would map to
gf53ef.domain.com
and
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Create image (EBS AMI) takes forever - possibly caused MySQL Server to break?
I'm trying to create an EBS AMI from my running EC2 instance to reuse my LAMP fully configured (for my needs). I got my website up and running yesterday on this EC2 instance my MySQL was working fine ...
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Creating new .pem key for ssh
The computer I am using was re-imaged and I do not have a copy of my pem file to access the server. I generated a new pem. What do I need to do to be able to log in to me ec2 server now?
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Amazon SES vs EC2 Smtp server
We have an existing smtp environment setup in an EC2 instance which is used to send Transactional emails like password reset. Now we have a requirement to send System emails to a large user base in ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent of Unix 'CPU steal time'?
In order to assess performance monitoring accuracy on virtualization platforms, the CPU steal time has become an increasingly relevant metric - see EC2 monitoring: the case of stolen CPU for an ...
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Can ping ec2 server (ubuntu/apache) but don't get response from http request
Background:
OS: ubuntu
Web Server: apache2
What works:
I can ping the server's elastic IP (and receive a response)
I can ssh into the server
What doesn't work:
I cannot get any sort of http ...
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Amazon EC2 - How to run IIS on AWS configured Windows instances other than IIS/SQL Server Express AMI
Am I missing something here?
Amazons EC2 looks good and I'm trying to find a suitable AMI for a new Windows server I'm setting up.
I don't really want to use a community shared AMI from what I've ...
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backing up postgres on ec2
Ok, I'm quite new to this server administration stuff. I have set up an ec2 instance running my website. I'm running everything on a single machine - node.js & postgres. What is the best way to ...
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1 EC2 instance per website - manage multiple websites on Amazon cloud using EC2
I'm managing multiple websites, most based on WordPress and all are based on LAMP stack.
I'm moving all my websites to Amazon cloud.
I'm new to AWS and my plan is moving 1 website by one, starting ...
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Security implications of using a publicly available Windows AMI [closed]
I have used a publicly available Windows AMI, and have created a Micro Instance from it. Does that mean my EC2 instance is not secure? I am new to using AWS.
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Trouble with installing npm and supervisor package on Amazon Linux AMI
I'm running an Amazon Linux AMI and successfully installed node.js by wget'ing the source, untarring the file, and running ./configure and then sudo make install. When I installed npm:
curl ...
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How can I download the Amazon Linux AMI
I'd like to build upon the Amazon Linux AMI. How can I download one of their AMI images using ec2-download-bundle?
I tried
ec2-download-bundle -b ...
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How to access Amazon EC2 instance by HTTP?
I have installed Amazon EC2 instance and have set up tomcat7 on it with sudo yum install tomcat7 command. Also I have added a rule
8080 0.0.0.0/0
in instance's security group.
Also I ran tomcat7 ...
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Understanding HTTP requests
I'd like to get a better understanding of what requests are and how to describe them. For example, when I go to a homepage for a django project, I get the following five requests:
[21/May/2012 ...
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Openssl error. Not verifying against install trusted certifications (Amazon Linux)
I'm using EC2 to host a PHP web service but I'm pretty sure the answer lies within the OpenSSL configuration so I'm asking here rather than on SO.
When connecting to a particular web service site I ...
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Is Amazon EC2 really inexpensive? How does “on demand” works? [closed]
I see the smallest and the cheapest price for Amazon EC2 is 0.080 per hour which gives us 0.080*24*31= $60 per month -- the price of cheapest dedicated physical server.
So, what is the essence? May ...
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Tips for making a lightweight windows ami for running on the t1.micro instance [closed]
I'd like to pare down windows 2008 server as much as possible and was looking for ideas. I've got it running ok on the t1.micro instance, but I'd like to give as many resources as I can to my custom ...
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CAL, RDS CAL or both? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
i have a desktop software(lagacy software) on Amazon AWS cloud(Windows 2008 R2 datacenter) and i want share that ...
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Compile error during Inline::Python install on Amazon EC2
While attempting to install Inline::Python, directly from a CPAN shell command, I get the compile errors shown below.
QUESTION: how to install a Inline::Python that runs under Perl 5.10.1 on this EC2 ...
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Connect to Windows Server 2008 running on ec2
I have an instance of the default micro AMI for Windows Server 2008 R1 x32 running on AWS. I can remote in to it, but I can't seem to ping it or connect to a server running on port 25565. I have ...
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How to use additional disk space after upgrading EC2 Micro to Small Instance
I started with an Ubuntu 12.04 EC2 micro instance (8GB Disk) and just relaunched the snapshot as a small instance (160GB Disk) but in my console it still only shows as an 8GB disk. Webmin reports it ...
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Setting up minecraft server on Amazon ec2 [closed]
Perhaps this is considered too frivolous a question, but I'm trying to set up a Minecraft server on ec2. I've been doing micro instances for now, because I want to see how well it works before ...
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Difference between static IP and elastic IP address?
With Amazon's EC2, to assign an IP address I create an "Elastic IP", however it seems to just give me a static IP address. What is the difference between a static IP and an elastic IP? Or is it the ...
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Amazon route 53 first time
I'm wondering if I set up my Amazon Route 53 records correctly to run on my Amazon EC2 instance which has an elastic IP, django webapp running on nginx and gunicorn:
It is my first time so I would ...
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Amazon EC2 instance - issuing “top” command just goes blank on the ssh terminal
I have created an Amazon EC2 micro instance, running Amazon AMI. I logged into the server using ssh client. Once it logs in successfully, if I issue the "top" command, the top output never shows up ...
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Why Won't Apache Fully Stop or Restart? I have to manually Kill every time
I have a configured EC2 server running Ubuntu 11.10 running a Django App on Apache2/WSGI. This server works perfectly, stops and restarts without any problems.
When I clone this instance, everything ...
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Why does deploying an application to Amazon beanstalk create a new security group and a new EC2 instance?
I'm testing nerddinner on aws Amazon ec2.
I have created security group (mygroup) and an Amazon ec2 instance (with security group mygroup)
I have followed the steps in this video: ...
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How to shutdown from a script without being root?
I've got an amazon EC2 instance, which starts up, runs a script, and when the script finishes, I want to shut it down.
I tried chmod g+s to give super user privileges on a .sh script which called ...
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aws ec2 elastic ip to multiple instance
I am new to EC2, just finished setting up my micro instance and ready for production.
I want to start w/ 2 medium instances.
How do i assign my elastic IP to both of them so they act as 1? also would ...
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EC2 Upstart job: Stop on runlevel never called pre-stop
I'm using EC2 and I have a pre-stop script that is calling curl. From what I can tell the curl never gets called. I'm trying to do stop on shutdown or stop on runlevel [056]. Neither seem actually ...
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Amazon Micro-instance for placeholder sites
I have a little experience with Amazon EC2 and setting up a free micro instance
and I started thinking about other sites I own on traditional web hosting, where you pay X/month, don't really market ...
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Giving full permission on samba share (Amazon EC2)
I have two ubuntu ec2 servers - let's say ServerA and ServerB.
ServerA has a large EBS attached to it and it's shared via Samba. This EBS is mounted to ServerB on /var/www/static. If I create file ...
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Amazon EC2 Public DNS is useless?
Seems the Public DNS, e.g. ec2-x-x-x-x.compute-1.amazonaws.com will be changed when you stop or terminated the instance.
So this mean they have the same life span as the ec2 public IP address, so why ...
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Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancing - strategy for zero downtime server restart
I have 5 web servers (Apache/mod_perl) behind Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancing, when I deploy codes to the web servers, I am doing this..
For each machine, shutdown the Apache
Update the code
Start ...
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“User 'wsgi' not found” when starting uWSGI
I'm currently trying to set up a server on Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu 11.10) using web.py, nginx and uWSGI as shown here: http://blog.nobien.net/2011/08/14/nginx-uwsgi-and-web-py-and-my-new-job/
I've ...
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Unexpected behaviour when dynamically add node in HAproxy server
I wanted to use HAProxy for my web app for load balancing purpose. I am trying to add a new rabbitmq node dynamically in HAProxy server using command : haproxy -p /var/run/haproxy.pid -sf $(cat ...
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ngnix on amazon ec2 instance which has RedHat 4.4.4-13?
I have an ec2 instance running on amazon which has AMI(ami-1b814f72).Its running RedHat 4.4.4-13 version.
I want to install ngnix and gunicorn on with django. According to ngnix ...
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Creating ethernet alias for eth0 network device on EC2 instance
i'm trying to create an ethernet alias for eth0 network device for two EC2 instances following instructions in this tuotorial guide ...
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scp to AWS EC2 - error - “Please login as the user ”ubuntu“ rather than the user ”root“.”
I'm trying to scp a file to /var/www because I'm playing with apache. To move the file I do scp -i <ec2-shh-key> localfile root@<ec2-instance-ip>:/var/www/fileremote.
But this gives me an ...
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How do I view Security Group rules for an AWS EC2 Security Group using the command-line tools?
I know that you can set Security Group rules with ec2-authorize and ec2-revoke. How do you view the rules of a given security group?
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Should I be setting up my Django app on my server via SSH or locally? [closed]
Ok noob question: I have a little micro AWS EC2 instance running, and I'm going through this Django tutorial. SSH'ing into my EC2 means that all the work I'm doing, like editing the config files, ...
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Squid on EC2 doesn't work
I create an instance using the ubuntu AMI 12.04 server 64bit and install squid3.
The only changed to the /etc/squid3/squid.conf file was:
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
per
acl localhost src ...
