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Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are disk images of an operating system used to launch AWS EC2 instances.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are disk images of an operating system used to launch AWS EC2 instances. There are several variants including instance store based, EBS based, paravirtualized (PV), hardware virtual machine (HVM), Linux, Windows, pay-per-use, etc.

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How to recreate a working AMI from recovery snapshot after Aug 8 outage?

After Amazon's Aug 8 outage, all (EBS based) AMIs stopped working for many users. This is due to corruption of some sectors in snapshots that the AMIs are based on. However, Amazon created recovery snapshots where the disk problems should be fixed.…
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Why is my AWS instance not reachable?

Yesterday, I created a new instance but I cannot connect to it. Tried pinging it from my computer, online ping sites etc but it is just not reachable. In the AWS console. everything seems to be functioning normally. The reachability check is…
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Enable the EPEL repository on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I need to install some tools from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository (EPEL) that are not available in the default repositories of the Amazon Linux AMI. /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo already contains the needed repository, but it is…
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How Do I Update Apache to 2.2.24 On AWS Instance

I have a website hosted on an Amazon AMI Linux instance. We had a PCI Scan recently and we failed the scan because we have Apache 2.2.23 installed, and apparently it contains vulnerabilities that have been since fixed on 2.2.24. I did a sudo yum…
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Prevent Amazon EC2 Time zone from reverting back on yum update

I use an Amazon EC2 server instance that runs a distro called Amazon Linux AMI. (I've read that it is based on CentOS/Red Hat). My specific version is the 2012.09 release. Anyway, I was able to change the time zone about a week ago from the default…
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Install Go 1.8 with yum

I'm new to Linux / Yum and just set up an AWS AMI instance. I'm trying to install Go 1.8. When I ran sudo yum install golang it installed version 1.6.3. How can I make it install version 1.8? [ec2-user@ip-123 ~]$ yum --showduplicates list golang |…
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Invalid block device mapping: Invalid device name - Creating an AMI from an Instance Store-Backed

I'm trying to create an AMI from an instance store-back instance but I'm getting "Invalid device name" error at the time when I try to register the AMI. I'm following this…
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How does AWS configure the 169.254.169.254 address on an instance?

AWS uses 169.254.169.254 as a link local address, which you can use to pull meta data about the instance, ie: curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ How/where is this IP configured on the instance? I can see a route for it if I do an "ip…
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AWS t1 to t2 migration: Client.InstanceInitiatedShutdown on new t2 instance

I've had a Linux t1.micro running a small Apache/PHP/Postgresql website for a couple of years now (referred herein as "original instance"). Works like a charm. I wanted to migrate the site to the new (cheaper) t2.micro instance. I couldn't find…
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Easiest way to show Maintenance page during EC2 instance down time

I need to perform some maintenance, which involves down-times of my EC2 production server. I would like to serve some user friendly Maintenance page meanwhile. The easiest solution, I was able to come up with, is to grab some minimalistic Micro…
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Easy way to convert custom 32-bit AMI into 64-bit one?

I have customised (EBS-backed) AMI for running a demo version of an application of ours. (The AMI contains Ubuntu 11.04 with a Tomcat & MySQL setup for the app itself, and Jenkins for easy one-click update of the demo). This is a 32-bit AMI, which…
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Where are AMIs stored?

It seems like an very simple question, but yet I could not find the answer. When I make an instance on Amazon AWS and then make some changes and create an AMI where is that AMI stored? S3? Will making extra AMIs be added to the amount payed each…
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How to download private ubuntu AWS EC2 AMI for local use

We have a large number of ubuntu servers currently hosted on AWS EC2. Many of these servers are accessed infrequently and for cost-saving we now want to move these over to our local site and terminate them on Amazon. Most of the servers are…
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Convert Amazon AMI to VMware image

How can I convert an amazon ami image to a vmware image I can run locally in vmware player?
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How do I create an instance store based AMI from an EBS instance?

To give a background, I need about 10 instance replicas for a research purpose. So, here is what i do: I have an EBS based EC2 instance as master instance where i do all the development. Create an AMI out of the master and launch 9 instances using…
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