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How to setup EC2 spot instances with elastic IP?
I would like to set up an EC2 spot instance with an elastic IP. Here's the catch: if a spot instance is interrupted and resurrected later,
Is the ip reassociated to the new instance?
Am I billed for ...
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DynamoDB pricing
I read through the DynamoDB pricing page and I'm a little confused about their free usage tier. Let's say a developer want's to get started on DynamoDB and he gets 100MB of free storage + 5 writes and ...
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using ZFS and local hard drives as a cache for a remote iSCSI SAN
This is purely theoretical idea, i dont plan on doing this any time soon, but could you use Local hard drives as a kind of Cache to remote drives stored on Amazon EC2, shared to a user via iSCSI?
The ...
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What can cause a MAC Address to change?
I would like a summary of common scenarios that can cause a MAC address to change?
Does hopping on a new network give you a new MAC?
Does installing a new network device (e.g. WiFi card) cause a ...
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Lost sudo/su on Amazon EC2 instance
I have an Amazon EC2 instance. I can login just fine, but neither "su"
nor "sudo" work now (they worked fine previously):
"su" requests a password, but I login using ssh keys, and I don't
think ...
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How to get the key ID from a .pem openssl file?
I have a .pem private key generated by openssl.
How to extract the key ID from it?
Edit: the generated rsa keypair is for Amazon cloudfront. When uploaded on the console, a 'Key ID' is displayed. ...
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I can't resolve s3 dns from time-to-time
I'm using the .net SDK to talk to S3, but too often I get the following exception:
The remote name could not be resolved: 's3.amazonaws.com'
I'm using the two standard OpenDNS DNS servers, and ...
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Git push from windows pc to aws ec2 machine fails
I've followed the steps in this tutorial:
http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-ec2
but when I came to the step "push our local code changes to the remote repository" I got an ...
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Get a fixed dns for an ec2 instance
I want to use an ec2 instance just to do work on some personal programming and text processing projects in the cloud (from an ssh terminal) rather than on a desktop. I don't always need access to the ...
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Modify RDS instance size cause any downtime?
If I modify a production RDS instance to increase the instance size due to load issues, is that a safe operation and will it cause any downtime?
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Adding Webmin to Bitnami Lamp Stack
I'm running Bitnami on my free tier amazon
bitnami-lampstack-3.0.6-0-linux-ubuntu-10.04-ebs (ami-aa8cf5f8)
Description: BitNami Lampstack 3.0.6-0 EBS AMI
Status: available
Platform: Ubuntu
Image ...
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Transfer file to Amazon S3 from web server
How do I transfer a tarball from my web server (e.g. http://example.com/backup.tar.gz) to an Amazon S3 bucket? Do I have to download it locally and upload it?
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EC2 Accessing S3 buckets fuse tool
It seems it's been a while since S3 has been available, but the tools to use it are still the same ones I saw several years ago (i.e. s3cmd and s3sync and s3fs).
I think the ones that use the REST ...
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Zip Multiple Text Files from Multiple Directories into One ZIP File in One Command in Bash
I have an account on AWS and I use S3 for storing data. I have commands that will enable me to zip data files like so:
data.zip s3_dir/level-1/level-2/*/*/data.txt
But there are, say, 50 or more ...
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Create VPN access to my house with Amazon?
Is it possible to create a VPN that could support multiple connections with TCP/IP using a VPN created in Amazon's cloud? I've been reading about http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ but I keep getting the ...
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should i and how do i backup my database for a webapp that is hosted on amazon ec2 server?
I set up an amazon ec2 instance using ubuntu server edition.
I install LAMP stack on it.
I did up a php web app running on mysql. I have tested the web app on Amazon EC2, it works.
I have not ...
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Using Amazon EC2 as a webserver with a specific IP address
I'm trying to create a personal/professional website within a college domain. From the university I've requested a static IP address which is directed to this website name: ...
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Amazon S3/Cloudfront backup software for windows
Is there any (free?) backup solutions for Amazon Cloudfront / S3 out there that features scheduling in windows?
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Mounting an Amazon EC2 instance on Mac OS X
I've got public key authentication working between my Mac OS X and an Amazon EC2 instance so that from the command-line I can just type the following and it works:
ssh root@[IPAddressOfEC2Instance]
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Are whole VM images backed up on Amazon EC2/S3?
I've been trying to get my head around Amazon Web Services as a VPS provider. My understanding is a EC2 instance running Windows is basically a Windows VM, very similar to renting a VPS from a more ...
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Time machine backup on S3
Is there any possibility to use Amazon S3 for Mac OS X time machine backups?
Or in other words: Use S3 rather an external hard disk for time machine backups?
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Best Amazon S3 File Manager Utility?
Ever since I started using Amazon's S3 service I've been struggling to find a good solution for simple file management, without having to write my own app to browse my buckets, upload and delete ...
