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Is there a way of adding an Amazon EC2 Instance onto Finder?

Hey is it possible to virtually mount an EC2 Instance in finder? I'm trying to eliminate the use of an external SFTP client (I use Terminus at the moment) and I was wondering if it was possible if I ...
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How to automatically shutdown *any* idle EC2 instances automatically?

I am trying to build something that will automatically shutdown any idle EC2 instances. I looked up online and the CloudWatch solution only works on a per-instance level, meaning you have to add one ...
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Cannot allow user to connect after allowing his IP through INBOUND rules

I whitelisted an IP address on EC2 and the site is still prompting username and password, because it's setup so that the browser request the username and password before the page even loads. I am not ...
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Unreachable domain in AWS Route 53

I currently am having problems setting up a domain that i transferred to aws with route 53. Basically the architecture is pretty straight forward and the same procedure (as far as I can tell) worked ...
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AWS EC2 Disable disableApiTermination from the console

I'm new to AWS, I created an EC2 instance and I want to terminate it. However, when I created it, I set disableApiTermination to True, and now, when I'm trying to terminate it, I receive this message: ...
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How can I connect to a MySQL database instance via an EC2 instance

I am trying to connect from my local machine to a MySQL database that is hosted on AWS. The database itself is not publicly accessible (as in, it is configured to refuse outside connections), but is ...
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How can "PermitRootLogin no" add security

The topic is already discussed here, but I don't fully understand the answers I am trying to meet some good practice security criteria while setting up a VPS. I am using Ubuntu18 on AWS EC2 which I ...
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"This operation requires an interactive window station" error when launching GUI via jenkins on aws windows instance

I have a windows ec2 instance which runs a build server for a unity game, controlled by jenkins. When running unity with the -batchMode command, I can make the game build successfully. I'd like to run ...
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Tuning linux filesystem caching for aggressive writing to block storage

I have an Amazon EC2 instance of type c4.8xlarge that I'm using as a target for ongoing rsync processes that are storing my database data files and transaction logs for disaster recovery purposes. ...
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SCAP Compliance checker error for AWS EC2

I'm try to use Scap Compliance Checker 5.4 on a Windows laptop to scan remotely an EC2 Ubuntu 18.04, but it showed error. There's plenty free space on the EC2, and I gave ubuntu full permission to /...
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aws --version error: bash: /usr/bin/aws: No such file or directory

I have an AWS CLI install problem that I found no solution for on the Web. Namely, I installed awscliv2 as guided by the AWS installation docs. After the install, when I enter the command aws --...
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Do I need to separate /var and /tmp from the root partition on AWS EC2?

A result of an audit check on the Amazon Linux AMI gave a number of recommendations on the file structure, for example the need to have the root and /var and /tmp on different partitions. Is this ...
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Why can't I read this file on a remote AWS server in Powershell?

I launched a couple servers in AWS and I want to read the contents of the a file using Powershell. On server 1 I create a file called App_configuration.txt and placed in the root of c:\. The file has ...
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How to control the connection while uploading to AWS S3?

Is there a way to control the connection while uploading from my servers to the AWS Storage? to be clear, Azcopy is so powerful to upload to AWS, so most of our bandwidth consumed and this is ...
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99 % CPU taken up by “ps”

I have an EC2 t2.micro (Linux AMI) instance. Since a few days I noticed that RAM is being 99% used by "ps" . When that happens : $ free -m total used free ...
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How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into a server?

I mistakenly have source .bash_profile in the bashrc file and vice versa. Now when I tried to ssh into the machine (ec2), it will stuck at loading bash and get connection closed in a second. Is there ...
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Execute mysqldump in local machine and fetch the data from the database server behind the server

I have EC2 and RDS on AWS I want to do mysqldump to fetch the data from RDS My condition are below RDS accepts the connection from only EC2 server. EC2 doesn't have the power to use mysqldump. So ...
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Port forwarding killing the springboard server?

I am trying port-forwarding from Local machine ->EC2 ->RDS What I am doing is like this on local machine $ssh -f -N -L 3308:my_rds.amazonaws.com:3306 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cina02 ubuntu@my_ec2....
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Graph many series which are all in one column?

I'm trying to find a quick way to take Cloudwatch metrics and graph them in excel because it's too much data for Cloudwatch to render in one API call. I only need one metric, but I need it from 526 ...
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AWS elastic load balancing

I am fairly new to AWS.While learning the AWS course,I get this question. Will AWS loadbalancer scale up and down? How it happens? Because ,I understand ec2 would scale up and down based on the ...
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Not able to transfer a file through SCP to my aws ec2 ( connection time out /lost connection

It's as simple as I described on the title. I want to upload a .gz file into the ec2 but I get "connect to host ----- port 22: Connection timed out / connection lost" I'm really new to this ...
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Upgrade AWS Windows Server 2019 to Insider Preview

I have an instance of windows server 2019 base running on aws and would like to install the windows server insider preview. Updating the settings for windows update in group policy editor did not ...
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I am trying to transfer a file from oracle VirtualBox in my computer to AWS EC2 instance

I am trying to transfer a file from oracle VirtualBox in my computer to AWS EC2 instance used command - scp /progs/add.sh [email protected]:/file1 where - 18.221.48.189 is public IP of AWS instance ...
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FFmpeg multi input and multi output

I have been trying to collect audios from different pulse sources and x11grab video for merging some of them together. Finally all will be pushed to AWS IVS This is the html for pushing audios to ...
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How do I keep a table in one Word document that shows the details about AWS EC2 instances updated?

I have an AWS account on which I have a few EC2 instances running. For documentation purposes, I have to maintain a Microsoft Word document where the list of such EC2 instances and its details are ...
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No route to host (Host unreachable) while downloading files from ftp server

I am trying to download files from FTP server, in the beginning the code was working properly, but all of a sudden this starting to failing in local machine & servers too.. Here is the FTP url and ...
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Unable to run AWS CLI: "ImportError: cannot import name 'docevents' from 'botocore.docs.bcdoc'"

New to linux, I just installed AWS CLI alongside Python3 and boto3 but I get this error when I tried running AWS CLI. fdostuni@PG022:~$ sudo ./aws/install You can now run: /usr/local/bin/aws --version ...
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Why should I use a private subnets to my EC2 instances

I'm taking a course in AWS development. And I'm represented with the following standard diagram: Where both the data and the EC2 instances are on private subnets. But I don't understand why I should ...
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Cloning an ubuntu EC2 instance never results in fully working box

I snapshot a box, create an AMI, and launch an instance with that AMI. I can connect via SSH. I can't connect via anything else (rdp, vnc etc) which I used to be able to on the original box. What are ...
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Unable to create ssh connect to Amazon Lightsail instance

I have problems when trying to transfer data from my local machine to cloud server (Amazon lightsail). My idea was to transfer data from local machine with scp command using private key. However I got ...
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Weird throttling effect when consuming AWS based services

So here's the thing: I am observing the mentioned effect for some time now and I don't get it. It starts to really annoy me and I cannot get a grip on it. So I am turning to this community with the ...
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Mail disappeared from Thunderbird while moving thousands of mails

I recently changed hosting provider (small company to AWS) with my domain + e-mail. In the old situation, my sent mail was stored in a folder 'Sent Items'. In the new situation, my sent mail is stored ...
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EC2 instance cannot connect to public IP

I'm banging my head against the wall trying to figure out what's wrong with my EC2 VPC connectivity. I have two EC2 instances in the same public subnet with an internet gateway. Both instances have ...
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Streaming file via HTTP to S3

Currently we have a function on one of our EC2 instances (running C# .NET) that, upon request, opens an HTTP connection to an external site (for the sake of argument, let's say https://www.example.com/...
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error in running ansible-playbook with jenkins

--i have a ansible playbook in ubuntu user and i am able to push this playbook in the remote user -- now i have install jenkins in this ubuntu(EC2 instance) server , and i have given jenkins all ...
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Ansible created user on Windows, gets ".EC2AMAZ-ELNOCH3" appended to username

I have created a Windows Server 2019 AMI using Packer, and Ansible as provisioner. I have added a user jenkins, and copied SSH files (public/private key, known_hosts, authorized_keys) to C:\Users\...
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Whitelist IP addresses for access to AWS S3 static web hosting

I have seen several references that use a Bucket Policy similar in structure to the following { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Id": "Policy1607646663558", ...
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FFMPEG produces corrupted video outputs on AWS Lambda only

I've been trying to use ffmpeg with AWS Lambda to transcode videos for web. I myself zipped and uploaded ffmpeg and ffprobe as a layer, after testing both of them on my local machine. The exact same ...
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Assigning subnet IPs to OpenVPN clients in AWS

I have a working OpenVPN server installed on the EC2 instance inside my VPC. It's used to allow remote users to access services inside private subnet. It's been a sufficient solution so far but ...
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unable to delete RDS DBs on AWS

I'm not able to delete a database on RDS. Deletion protection is not enabled, as per the following screenshot: Despite that the "Delete" option on the menu is grayed out: I've tried it ...
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AWS lambda update-function-code: Connection was closed before we received a valid response from endpoint URL

Updating AWS Lambda code from the command line. Using command aws lambda update-function-code --function-name LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME \ --zip-file fileb://lambdaFunc.zip --publish Returns Connection was ...
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How to let jenkins manage availability of windows ec2 node?

I have a jenkins ubuntu server and several windows nodes running on ec2. I'd like for the server to turn the windows boxes on and off as they're needed. I think that means using the "launch ...
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Open an application with "runas a different user" by passing the username pop-up

On a windows laptop, when I open Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS) (or any other application like Visual Studio or mstsc [RDP]) as run as a different user , a pop-up appears asking for credentials ...
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Cannot connect to FTP server behind AWS loadbalancer

I have configured AWS EC2 instance to be a FTP servers(Passive Mode) and attached a Load balancer target group to the instances. The loadbalancer listener port is 21. The problem I face is the my ...
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Is there a way to manage subdomains with multiple models to be review?

In AWS, Is it possible to configure this? How could I make this happen? http://mydomain.com.br (git branch master) http://staging1.mydomain.com.br (git branch staging1) http://staging2.mydomain.com....
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Why doesn't my AWS Transfer down scoping policy work across users?

Continuing How to restrict user access in AWS Transfer? ... I want a multi-user SFTP system running out of a single bucket with directory structure of: /my-bucket/user/user - user can: list ...
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How to restrict user access in AWS Transfer?

I'm trying to setup AWS Transfer to host multiple user accounts like: /my-bucket/<username> I've defined a base role and a down-scoping role but it's not working to restrict access to only the ...
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Configuring what happens when you start an AWS EC2 instance (Windows Server 2019)

I've set up an EC2 instance for cloud gaming. The instance runs Windows Server 2019 and everything works well, except that every time I start the instance I have to RDP in to start Parsec, the program ...
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How to deploy to AWS elastic beanstalk with github actions on many environments? (dev, staging, prod)

I'm using this github action to build a docker image from a Node app, then deploy it to elastic beanstalk via ECR. This works fine for a single environment for the app, but what about adding staging ...
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AWS - DescribeInstanceTypes for cache instance types

I am using DescribeInstanceTypes AWS EC2 API call to obtain the number of CPUs and memory for a given instance type. For example with an input "t3.micro" I get 1 VCPU / 1 GiB of RAM. But the ...
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