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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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Firewall missing from AWS MarketPlace Centos7 image

I am using this image from AWS MarketPlace. The Problem is that centos 7 is supposed to come with firewalld instead of iptables. But firewalld is not installed on it but iptables is installed. Why is that. What other changes are there for this…
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Amazon Linux rsyslog config override

I am using Amazon Linux AMI release 2015.03, I am trying to configure rsyslog to redirect logs to a remote logging server (in this case, logstash) by dropping a conf file in /etc/rsyslog.d. The remote logging configuration seems to work fine, but…
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Set Initial Remote Working Directory in SFTP

I am running Amazon Linux AMI (Red Hat derivative), and am creating a new SFTP server using OpenSSH. I would like for the SFTP user to be restricted to a directory, and to be able to write to the initial directory that is shown by their SFTP…
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Yum won't reinstall PHP on Amazon Linux

Ultimately, this question is about Yum and the Amazon Linux AMI (see the end for that part), but first I'll give some background to how I got into my situation. I installed PHP from source I am working on setting up a new PHP application on a web…
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Full Update to PHP5.5 on Amazon Linux

I have been trying to get LAMP install upgraded to PHP5.5, Apache 2.4, on Amazon Linux. Per this earlier question, Update PHP with yum on Amazon Linux, I thought I had it beat, but clearly that's not the case. At the moment I am trying to install…
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Custom Centos5 AMI kernel panic

I'm trying to build a Custom Centos 5 AMI on Amazon and during boot it kernel panics. I've spent almost a week on it and I can't figure out what's wrong. I've followed the following…
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How to install python debug symbols for GDB on amazon linux AMI?

I am running into problems on my EC2 box running Python in an elastic-beanstalk container. In order to debug the problem, I need to attach a debugger to it and debug python with python symbols. When I attach GDB to the process, I get this…
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installing glusterfs on amazon ec2

My drupal website running on Amazon EC2 cloud. My instances use S3 storage for dynamic files. But I realized that S3 is too slow and it may cause problems. I want to use glusterfs instead of S3. To use glusterfs; Which Linux AMI should I use? (I…
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Amazon - Delete privately shared AMI

We had to split an Amazon account into two accounts to better track usage between departments on the company. To transfer a server, we made an AMI of the EC2 server and shared it privately with the new account. The new account was able to…
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Where is Amazon Linux AMI Test Page EC2?

I have set up my websites as directories directly under /var/www/html/ and they are working just fine (the websites are mapped to virtual hosts). So, this is mainly out of curiosity for the moment. Furthermore, being able to customise this might…
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Create Webmin user for an EC2 Instance

I've setup an Amazon EC2 Instance, using the Ubuntu 12.04 AMI (ubuntu/images/ebs/ubuntu-precise-12.04-amd64-server-20120424 (ami-a29943cb)), and I'd like to get Webmin working (so I can setup a DNS). After following the installation instructions on…
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Can't Start 64-bit AMI on t1.micro instance on AWS

I created a custom AMI based on the Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit AMI from Amazon. When I try to start it up, I get an error: ec2-run-instances -t t1.micro ami-c0b368a9 -k showcase -z us-east-1a Client.InvalidParameterValue: The requested instance type's…
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Using boto, is there a way to create an AMI from a snapshot ID?

There's a command in the AWS EC2 API called ec2-register or ec2reg which has an argument -s for snapshot ID. You are able to create an image from a snapshot. I'd like to be able to do this in Python (currently using boto), but it doesn't look like…
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EC2: can I provide default startup scripts to erase sensitive data in my AMI?

I'm trying to use EC2 to provide an easy-to-use way to bootstrap a hard-to-build web application. Trouble is, there is some sensitive configuration on the filesystem, such as password salts. I've written a user-data script that replaces these salts…
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Is it possible to obtain a copy of Amazon Linux for use outside AWS

How difficult (if at all possible) would it be run a copy of Amazon Linux on a private physical server or hypervisor (Virtualbox/KVM) ? (I am thinking something based in a office/home) I realise it essentially RHEL/Centos with more up to date…
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