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Need to run windows service and MySQL, what remote/cloud service options do I have? [closed]

As the title suggests, I need to set up MySQL database which can be accessed by two (or more) different sites. The only snag with this is that we need to run a windows service alongside it (this is a ...
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setting up environment variables for aws hadoop ec2

I've been following this book: Hadoop in Action It gives a nice guide on how to start using ec2 with hadoop. One of the first things that it says is to download the command line tools here: ...
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Using Chef Solo to provision a Windows EC2 instance and bootstrap it

I'm trying to automate our CI process for a couple of .NET apps, and in a perfect world I'd like to spin up a Windows EC2 instance for each, bootstrap the instance to install Chef Solo and then ...
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Unable to remote into mysql server on Amazon ec2 windows instance

I'm trying to connect to MySQL server from my dev machine(win 7) using 'Toad for MySQL'. MySQL server is located on AMI windows instance(amazon ec2). I have had success earlier with dedicated servers ...
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Amazon EC2: map on it some of my network's folders

I have an application that does some processing on different files. The jobs are prepared on one machine, and then assigned to other machines where they are executed. I'd like to be able to run some ...
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How do I scale EC2 and push out code / data to my instances?

I currently have a T1.micro for development running Windows with SQL server 2008. The system allows students to come to our site to search for a mentor, update their profile with pictures and ...
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EC2 + RDS, or just a bigger EC2? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites I need to develop a system that connect to multiples outter systems to get XML data and reply with ...
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How to schedule automatic (daily) snapshots of AWS EC2 Windows Instance?

I have some Windows servers hosted on Amazon EC2. Some run Windows Server 2003 and other run Windows Server 2008. These are EBS-backed instances. Most of the instances also have some additional ...
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I changed time zone on DB & Web Server. Now SMTP sending is delayed

Both web & DB servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. They are instances in the same datacenter at Amazon EC2. I changed both servers from central to eastern time zone using the windows GUI. ...
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Use Amazon EC2 as a backup server

I would like to use Amazon EC2 as an emergency backup database+web server in the event our primary host becomes unavailable. I feel like I wouldn't have trouble setting up a Windows instance, install ...
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Optimal Instance Size for EC2 Sharepoint Server

I'm surprised that I can't find any info about this, but I'm not a Windows admin and just a novice EC2 user. I have a client who wants to stand up a Sharepoint server on EC2 for internal use. The team ...
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Backup script for Windows AMI

I just want to know what could you recommend a script to backup Windows server? I tried to use the normal Amazon API command line stated below and it’s working fine. However, when I restore the ...
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Windows EC2 server cannot login through RDP

In my Windows Server 2008 EC2 instance, when I RDP into the server, it successfully logs on, but just after the desktop appears, it logs off automatically and closes the RDP session and dis-connects ...
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Does Windows Datacenter Edition get patched centrally

I'm running an Amazon EC2 Windows 2008 Datacenter Edition instance. I tried to run Windows update on it a couple of times but it just seems to hang. Does the Datacenter edition get patched centrally ...
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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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EC2 Sql Server with EBS and ephemeral drives

I'm planning to start a EC2 high memory instance with SQL server on it. I'm working through how to setup the drives as the current dedicated hardware is set to a raid-5 but only 4gb of ram so a lot of ...
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Have a Domain, Have Amazon EC2 (Windows, NOT Linux) Server, Allowed port 80, Started Tomcat, FAIL :(

Tomcat is running locally on server(accessed through Remote Desktop), NSLookup shows my domain IP as a Non-authoritative answer. I still get a "This web page is not available" reply. What am I doing ...
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Is it possible to create an EBS AMI for windows EC2 instance?

We have a Windows server (EBS backed) running in EC2. We make regular snapshots for data backups. I'd like to create a new EC2 instance from one of these snapshots. Yes, I realise this is the same as ...
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Low profile windows AMI for EC2

Are there any trusted low profile Windows AMIs out there? By low profile I mean client class windows, with minimal disk use. Basically I need to provide a number of clients with remote access ...
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Can you connect to Amazon VPC VPN from Windows 7 without a hardware VPN on your end?

I found this thread that seems to suggest it's not possible to connect to Amazon VPC VPN from a Windows 7 box without an external hardware (router) on the client side. Is this true, or did I miss ...
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Amazon EC2: Restoring Windows EBS snapshots into AMIs or Instances?

As my Windows EC2 instance lives, starting and stopping many times a week, it evolves. These changes get saved to it's EBS volume, so state is persistent across reboots. Now, periodically I backup ...
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How do I migrate Amazon EC2 Windows AMI (or instances) from one region to another?

I have a Windows EC2 AMI and instance in Virginia but want to migrate it to Oregon. My guess is an instance migration may be impossible since it's live but at least an AMI+EBS volume transfer would ...
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Access mysql database from an Amazon Windows EC2 instance to another EC2 windows instance

I have 2 Amazon EC2 instances running WAMP stack. They are both in the same amazon account but different regions. Normally if I had this setup on Godaddy I would have used SOAP service to access data ...
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OpenVPN on AWS EC2 gives Error Code 1232 (Transmit Failed)

I am using OpenVPN for a VPN client in an Amazon's EC2 machine instance of Windows Server 2008 (32bit). It successfully connects, briefly, and I get Reply from 10.9.0.1: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=64 ...
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Lock Windows Disk for Backup (EC2 Snapshots)

I'm looking for a way to flush all pending writes to disk in Windows, then buffer all future writes until a command gives the go-ahead. I'd like to flush SQL Server writes and Windows system writes, ...
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What is Windows Azure's equivalent of Amazon AWS EC2?

Does anyone know the equivalent of Amazon EC2 in Windows Azure? Thinking of moving to Azure but we are not looking into rewriting the .NET application, also we do need private VPN to our office. Is ...
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Tons of TCP connections in TIME_WAIT state on windows 2008 - running on amazon AWS

OS: Windows Server 2008, SP2 (running on EC2 Amazon) Running web app using Appache httpd & tomcat server 6.02 and Web server has keep-alive settings. There are around 69,250 (http port 80) + ...
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Remote Desktop to Amazon EC2 Instance

So I just purchased a Windows Server Micro Reserved instance on Amazon EC2. Though now I don't know how to work with it. What DNS does it have, how can I use Remote Desktop to get into it, etc etc. ...
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How to create a new public AMI for windows with a random password?

I am trying to make a windows 2008 AMI that is a nice clean 64bit starter pack (IIS, SQL express, ASP.NET MVC, etc...) I would like to make it a public AMI when its done. There in lies the problem. I ...
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Windows desktop (XP, Vista or Win7) EC2 AMI for QA testing

I need to perform QA testing for Windows based applications on a Windows desktop client and I would like to know if EC2 supports Windows images that are NOT server based (e.g. Server 2003). I have ...
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General questions about Windows on Amazon EC2

I have some general Qs on my mind about Windows on EC2: Don't Windows servers normally have a key/license written somewhere into them, in which case can I not extract this (legitimate) license using ...
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Allowing web access to an Amazon EC2 Windows Server 2008 instance running Tomcat+application?

The instance I choose was the following: Basic 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (AMI Id: ami-d9e40db0) Microsoft Windows 2008 R1 SP2 Datacenter edition and 64-bit architecture. I have installed ...
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EC2/Windows: Install apps, save image (AMI), use later?

I need to test with various versions of applications running on windows. I'm tempted to use something like EC2, with the idea being: Fire up a base EC2 windows instance. Install the app (eg. ...
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Amazon machine images and licensing [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I browsed Amazon Machine Images (AMI) available at Amazon for using VM in the cloud, and found some machines ...
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How to copy files to Amazon EC2 Windows instance from my local machine?

I have created a new Windows instance on Amazon EC2. I want to copy some files from my local machine to the instance. How do I go about it?
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What happens when a load balancer fails?

Let's say I'm using Amazon's EC2 load balancer. I have it hooked up to two instances (excuse me if my terminology isn't correct). What happens if the load balancer fails? Do both instances fail to ...
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Custom Windows AMI for Amazon EC2

I am new to the Amazon EC2 services and I am planning to host a Windows based vm on Amazon. I have lot of fuzziness about AMIs on Amazon. So my first question would be, am I be able to install ...
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Where is the network connection enabled/disabled setting stored?

I have an Amazon EC2 instance of Windows Server 2008 where some genius managed to disable the network connection so that the instance is now isolated in its own little universe. I can shut down the ...
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How to upload stuff to Amazon EC2 Windows instance?

I've never used Amazon EC2 - I am thinking to test a few instances for running intensive computation processes I have a requirement for rather than buying real hardware. I am given to understand the ...
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Example Batch File To Start A Spot Instance Of Certain EC2 AMI?

I want to start a certain EC2 AMI at the click of a button, well two buttons actually. Just to speed up testing / launch-time. How would you call the EC2 API tools for windows via a batch file to ...
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EC2 Startup - How to Tell When Windows Ready?

I am working with Amazon EC2, and I have some Windows AMIs backed with EBS. When I launch a new instance from an EBS snapshot, the EC2Config service prepares the Windows machine for me. I know when ...
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how long did it take you to setup ec2 window servers?

how long did it take you to setup ec2 window servers? Any major issues? I wish someone could link to a post where someone wrote step by step how they did it, and any issues they encountered etc.
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Speeding up launch of Amazon EC2 Windows instances

I'm working on a Web service which is hosted on EC2 and needs to have a varying number of instances running, depending on load. We have the basic service up and running, but one of the things we're ...
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Options for installing software on Amazon EC2 Windows instances

I've been running Linux servers on Amazon EC2 for a while now; the experience has been great. I've recently needed to bring up a Windows server to run some Windows-only software that our product ...
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How to get an EC2 Windows machine's instance-id into a batch variable

I have a batch file that I'd like to run on startup of an EC2 Windows AMI. The program I'd like to run from that batch file takes the instance-id of the EC2 machine as a parameter. What is the ...