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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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redis-server /etc/redis.conf just hangs

Just installed redis on AWS AMI Linux (RHEL 2018.03) with https://stackoverflow.com/a/34203915/1471267. Running sudo redis-server without a config file argument works fine and the server starts as expected. However, if I run sudo redis-server…
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Per-second billing for custom AMI

In the beginning of October this year Amazon announced per-second billing for EC2 instances. This potentially could be a big cost reduction for me. However Amazon also says this billing is platform dependent: Per-second billing is not currently…
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How can I have trust in a Community AMI offered on Amazon EC2

I want to launch a Fedora 24 instance on Amazon EC2. The Fedora Cloud download page no longer offers links to Fedora 24 AMIs, instead it offers links to "Fedora 25 Atomic Host" images (these are new stuff, things are changing too fast nowadays). On…
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AMI Without Reboot on AWS EC2 on a Web Server

I am running a webserver with very little writes (apart from log files). According to amazon: When enabled, Amazon EC2 does not shut down the instance before creating the image. When this option is used, file system integrity on the created…
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How to get the Amazon Linux AMI version by AMI id?

I have an EC2 instance which runs an outdated Amazon Linux AMI (ami-5256b825). To upgrade to the most recent version, I first want to know what the differences between 2 images are. I only have the AMI ID (like ami-6e7bd919) and not the version…
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AWS Beanstalk redirect entire application from http to https

The aws load balancer forwards all https requests onto the ec2 instance over port 80. I need to somehow redirect all http request on to https. What I've gathered thus far is you need to somehow modify the ec2 instance with the redirect rules and…
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Available Instance types for marketplace ami's

I based my autoscaling AMI's on the Turnkey Linux nginx AMI from the marketplace. I am now unable to select any of the newer generation instance types; for instance, my autoscaling uses m3.large type but I'd really like it to use the c3.xlarge type…
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EC2 AMI instance store backup grub utility required

Working on backup of whole ec2 volume and image to upload to s3. Using RHEL7 and it internally uses Grub2 as bootloader. EC2 AMI tools requires grub legacy loader and I'm struck up in this loader. When i run ec2-bundle-vol, Stacktrace is as…
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Ubuntu 14.04 Server HVM with EBS Free Tier AMI

I'm looking through the AWS Marketplace and Community AMI's to launch an instance on my newly registered free tier on Amazon. I'm very confused by the advertising of what's included in the free tier vs what offered in the AMI store. For…
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Why no "System Restart Required" message after Amazon Linux kernel update?

I ran sudo yum update on an Amazon Linux instance and it updated the kernel. On other distos I've seen, this causes a message to appear when you login saying System Restart Required. Why don't I see it here? Last login: Mon Jun 2 17:06:11 2014…
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Is there a mailing list or a programmatic way to determine a new Amazon EC2 AMI has been released?

We would like to ensure we are always running the latest version of the Amazon EC2 AMI to keep our OS running the latest security updates. Currently to determine the latest release we are scraping http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/ but I am…
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How to create an Amazon AMI with HVM from scratch?

All the instructions I find online start with an existing AMI, but I would like to create an AMI from scratch using HVM instead of PV. Does anyone know the procedure for doing this?
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Difference between AWS Software Subscription and Launching a Custom AMI?

Amazon AWS seems to provide two methods of launching an instance of Ubuntu 12.04 that confuse me, one of them is the Software Marketplace the other method is by launching an AMI on the Ubuntu website All of these comparisons are 12.04 LTS, Micro,…
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Run python script inside /etc/rc.local doesn't work

I modified /etc/rc.local on my Amazon AWS AMI #!/bin/sh touch /var/lock/subsys/local # setup hostname properly /usr/bin/python /root/automation/initSystem.py so last line calls Python script that does configuration (Env variables, hostname,…
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How to prevent update from conflicting repo?

On EC2 / Amazon Linux AMI (Centos based), I created /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo: [nginx] name=nginx repo baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 Then I successfully installed nginx 1.4.2: sudo yum…
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