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Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform "in the cloud". If you have a question about a specific web service, consider asking on its tag, e.g., amazon-ec2.

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Amazon SES not working from Rackspace Servers

Has anyone encountered a problem where they cannot connect to email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com for SMTP from a Rackspace server? WHen I ping from a rackspace server there is always 100% packet loss. ...
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Amazon EC2 Instances

I have an EC2 instance what I can not repair. I was trying to make an upgrade but everything fails. Would be possible to reinstall an amazon ec2 instance running on Ubuntu server?
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Windows Azure Blob Storage Data Migration

I would like to back up the files I currently have in Azure Blob Storage and move them elsewhere. The problem is that pulling them one by one would take me several weeks, even within the same ...
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When should an EC2 instance use "Amazon instance store-backed"?

What are the benefits over using Amazon instance store-backed over EBS block storage? The only thing I can see from the comparison of the two is that instance store-backed seems to incur less charges. ...
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Rails AWS Architecture - migrating from single Linode machine to AWS

Our startup has an app that's been in production for nearly a year running Rails/MySQL+MongoDB/Unicorn/Nginx successfully on a single Linode box. We've recently decided to move to AWS for several ...
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How can I download an S3 binary file using Amazon's AWS CLI tool?

I am trying to download a binary file from an AWS S3 bucket using Amazon's new command-line interface. However, the tool responds with an error message. $ aws s3 get-object --bucket myBucketName --...
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Accessing the disk under Task Scheduler

I'm running a couple of console applications using task scheduler. These are applications that perform little backoffice tasks and run as C# console applications. The applications themselves run ...
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Serious Ubuntu AMI EC2 Issue - Cannot duplicate

These are the steps I took: Deploy Ubuntu EC2 instance (tried both LTS and latest) default kernel and RAM ID Snapshot Instance Create AMI from snapshot, default kernel and RAM ID Launch EC2 from ...
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EC2 instance not reachable by web deploy

I'm followed directions here: how-to-install-webdeploy-on-windows-server-2012 on a server 2012 EC2 instance. Then I followed directions here: how-to-use-web-deploy-visual-studio-to-importexport-iis8-...
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mkfs.xfs on EBS volume as non-root user on AWS

I've set up a udev rule to attach a particular EBS volume as owned by a user, and this works. Here are the permissions on the device node after the volume has been attached: brw-rw---- 1 myuser ...
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Squid showed up on port 8080. Possible Rootkit?

I recently attempted to connect to my EC2 server on 8080 and had some strange issues that weren't occurring earlier. NGinx (though setup for :81) captures any requests on port 8080. If I stop ...
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Deleting old AMI in AWS EC2

I had to migrated a few VMs from EC2 into a VPC and to do so, I created an image of every VM, stopped it, and launched a new instance in the VPC from the AMI I've created. I am now wondering, if I ...
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Download single files from GitHub in CloudFormation template

Within my CloudFormation template, I would like to download text files from GitHub. When I examine the downloaded files is encoded/encrypted content instead of plain text. It doesn't seem like it ...
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What is the database server usage size available with the Amazong AWS RDS free usage tier?

At http://aws.amazon.com/free/, the documentation indicates the Free Usage Tier comes with 30 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, and for database/RDS, 20 GB of database storage. When I create launch ...
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Where to put script that backs up root EBS volume using snapshot

I have this awesome python script obtained from http://aws-musings.com/manage-ebs-snapshots-with-a-python-script/ I would like to back up the root EBS volume of my EC2 instances into EBS snapshots. ...
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What are the steps needed to set up and use security for AWS command line tools?

I've been trying to set up the AWS command-line tools following Eric's most useful guide at http://alestic.com/2012/09/aws-command-line-tools. I can't seem to find a good how-to for how to generate ...
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Autoscaling EBS volumes

I've had a quick look for metrics in Cloudwatch and couldn't see anything but forgive me if I missed it. I would like to know if it's possible to watch and EBS volume and add more when it is nearing ...
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AWS PHP Curl with SSL

I'm trying to install the Amazon Web Services PHP SDK on my Ubuntu LAMP server. Whenever I run the compatibly check everything but cURL comes back okay. The issue I'm having is that it's reporting I ...
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Amazon EC2 root defaults on EBS

I'm trying to understand why when launching a new instance Amazon defaults to EBS (8gb root) instead of instance storage. Why do they sell instance storage then if it's not used also to boot the base ...
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Has an entire AWS region gone down? [closed]

I'm trying to work out if previous datacenter failures on AWS have just applied to a single "availability zone" or the whole region. Does anyone know the details of the extent of the worst AWS failure?...
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Distributed computing through AWS

I know it's possible to balance traffic using ELB/EC2 instances but is there any way to distribute CPU calculations over a cluster of instances. I'm wanting to process lots of video/audio using ...
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404 page not found on apache server

I'm trying to get my feet wet with amazon web services and have SSH my instance and created a user, named logan, with admin rights. I then connected to the EC2 instance with the username and password ...
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Connect to memcached using PHP on Windows

I have a memcached server (on AWS ElastiCache) and need to connect to it using PHP on Windows (IIS not WAMP). Is this possible? I have found php_memcache.dll but this doesn't appear to work with ...
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AWS No ephemeral device on t1.micro ubuntu

I am launching a t1.micro instance using this command ec2-run-instances ami-a29943cb -t t1.micro -z us-east-1c -k prod --block-device-mapping=sdb=ephemeral0 --block-device-mapping=sdc=ephemeral1 -K &...
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Random timeouts between zones in Amazon EC2?

I am having issues with tcp connections between two instances in EC2. I thought at first it was the tools I was using (JRuby on Rails stack + MongoDB) when I saw exceptions such as the following in my ...
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Why can't I ping my Amazon EC2 instance?

I have a security group with ICMP enabled and a machine (Windows Server 32bits) that uses it and I can successfully ping. Today I instantiated a new machine (Windows Server 64 bits) using the same ...
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LAMP server to AWS with HA and NFS

I am planning to use Amazon Web Service (AWS) to migrate my existing LAMP infrastructure to them. So I created a simple design of my system architecture with the following. *1 Elastic Load Balancer ...
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What back-end hardware or software do Amazon Web Services use to provide the VPN functionality for their VPCs? [closed]

When connecting a customer gateway to a VPC VPN, what hardware or software is providing the service on Amazon's side?
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Is this infrastructure safe for scaling EBS online?

Our application uses EBS to store data. The storage requirement of the application grows rapidly as users signup. We need to do it online so that users don't experience downtime with the application. ...
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Can you change an AWS Elastic Load Balancer health check without causing instances to go out of service?

For a number of reasons I need to change the health check URL of a live site behind an ELB. The ELB is configured for health checks every 30 seconds, with a healthy threshold of 2 and unhealthy ...
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Migrating to EC2 - The move list

I'm going to to try and be as detailed as possible, as I'm aware these questions are often too loose. I'm running some smaller services on EC2/RDS and have begun organising myself to migrate my ...
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Large downloads from AWS EC2 are slow

We have an EC2 instance in the Ireland datacenter. Running off this is a website that permits the download of several files whose size ranges from 10MB to 200MB. The site stores the files on EBS. The ...
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Does AWS not allow outbound SSH connections?

I was wondering if Amazon Web Services disallows outbound SSH connections from public facing EC2 instances? I have an SSH Bastion on a public subnet with an Elastic IP setup to where I can can ...
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Good simple VPS to S3 Backup scripts?

anyone has a nice, simple script for backing up a VPS to a S3 bucket? can be ruby, python, whatever... should be easy to configure! thanks
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Disabling the Amazon EC2 Config Service - benefits? consequences?

What happens if I disable the Amazon EC2 Config Service on my windows instances? Is that service required? Are there performance benefits to disabling?
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Jboss clustering in Amazon EC2

I am working to put an application that would require scalability on Amazon EC2 but this is new to me. I started reading on jboss clustering and how to create new nodes with multi-casting. While ...
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How to Setting up Amazon EC2 with own OS and DB?

i got my own version of OS and DB which are window server 2008 Hyper-V R2 and Sql server R2 2008 both in enterprise version may i know how to configure it up and running ? with amazon EC2, what other ...
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Upgrade mysql 5.6 to 8 not working on AWS Linux based EC2

I am working with EC2 for MySQL DB. The OS of EC2 is AWS Linux-based Ubuntu. The current version of MySQL is 5.6.50. I am going to upgrade it to 8.0. I tried to upgrade it with this command: sudo yum ...
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Why isn't `nslookup` able to resolve an A record in route53, when I specifically use a nameserver from my hosted zone?

I'm trying to host a static website in s3. I have a domain registered with namecheap, and it is pointing at route53 nameservers. This part seems to be working correctly based on dig: dig getgargoyle....
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IPv4 to IPv6 NAT on AWS

AWS supports connecting to external IPv4-only services from an IPv6-only node using NAT64. Is there an equivalent for the reverse? For context, I have an EKS cluster, which is currently IPv4-only, all ...
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ansible - couldn't resolve module/action 'amazon.aws.s3_object' / The module amazon.aws.s3_object was not found in configured module paths

Per requirements, I did installed all the required packages, however amazon.aws.s3_object is one of those things: couldn't be resolved/found was not found in configured module paths step(s), I used ...
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Netcat successfully sends UDP packet despite all UDP traffic being blocked via Network ACL

I've created an AWS instance in the default VPC and I've blocked all UDP traffic in the Network ACLs. Here's how my outbound rules look: Rule number Type Protocol Port range Destination Allow/Deny ...
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AWS IAM: deny users from creating policies on specific resources

I want to be able to give my admin users the permission to create policies in IAM, but I want to make sure that they aren't able to create a policy that affects a specific resource. To be more ...
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Need to keep each binlog files to 24 hrs

We have a requirement werein we need to keep each binlog files(like mysql-bin-changelog.025249, mysql-bin-changelog.025250, mysql-bin-changelog.025251....) of MYSQL RDS to minimum 24 hrs. However, i ...
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Adding GA4 connection to AWS AppFlow

I am trying to add an AppFlow connection to an existing GA4 account, GA4 is already up and running and even pushing data to BigQuery. However, when I try to create the connection in Appflow to start a ...
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AWS MariaDB RDS stalls while upgrading

Our RDS database has been in state 'Upgrading' for over 5 hours. It appears it was applying an Automatic minor version upgrade to mariadb 10.4.26 I cannot connect to the database in any way; I can ...
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AWS Network Firewall + Windows EC2 Instance - google.com is not blocked in browser but is blocked in the command line

I'm using AWS Network Firewall along with a Windows EC2 instance to test. The goal is to allow access to only allowed URLs, which are: example.com .amazon.com .amazonaws.com This generally works. ...
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EC2 instance won't recognize IAM role?

I'm trying to download ECR images on my EC2 instance without having to provide a credentials file. So I created a role with the policy AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly and attached to my running ...
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How to create new instance from a snapshot and a new OS version

I have a NodeJS instance on Amazon LightSail. I want to upgrade the underlying Operating System to a newer major version, say Ubuntu 18 LTS to Ubuntu 20 LTS. When I create a new instance from the ...
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How is fetching the secure token from AWS each time more secure?

Instead of using the access key + access key password, AWS has you use a token that expires every 12 hours. To do this, you have to first use the access key + access key password to fetch this token. ...
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