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Questions tagged [amazon-ebs]

This is for questions on Amazon's storage service for its ec2 service.

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Error writing from S3 to EBS

I'm trying to copy from an S3 bucket to a mounted EBS volume on a Windows EC2 Instance. I have the following IAM policies in place: AmazonEC2FullAccess AmazonS3FullAccess AmazonElasticFileSystemFullAccess When I try to copy to the EC2 directly…
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Amazon EC2 IO consistency

Context: We are experiencing problems with large Solr indexes hosted on machines in EC2. One theory that's been offered is that this could be due to intermittent IO problems or spikes in IO latency. Has anyone seen short (or long, I suppose) IO…
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EC2 not booting because of mount - no logs

I have an EC2 hosted Ubuntu 16.04 server which doesn't boot. When I look at the logs in the Amazon console i only get a black screen. When I mount the disk to another server I have the following items in fstab: LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 …
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EBS Write-back cache on Linux?

I can't find a definitive description of how EBS handles write caching. EC2 T2.medium instance type EBS "gp2" devices Linux (Ubuntu 14.04) HVM virtualization hdparm -I /dev/xvda doesn't work - presumably since EBS is a not a real block device. Is…
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Is there any way to persist files for a web application using Amazon AWS without a full VM?

I would like to migrate an web application to Amazon AWS. The application stores and retrieves small persistent data from a content/ directory. I tried Amazon Elastic Beanstalk to deploy the application however new stored files are lost when the…
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AWS EC2 instance (Windows Server 2008): daily EBS snapshot without downtime

TL;TR I need to backup an AWS EBS-volume without downtime. In details I have a "Windows Server 2008" instance "EC2" on Amazon AWS with two EBS-volumes as C: and D: system drivers. On C: driver works the OS, on D: driver works a web service, i need…
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Install nginx on EBS?

If I launch an instance with EBS storage, how do I install nginx on the EBS volume rather than on the instance? Does anyone have any tips or a blog post?
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ln -s not working under /mnt/

I'm following this tutorial to set up a LAMP stack on EC2 with persistent storage on EBS. It all works well when doing it step by step. But in case you want to mount your EBS under /mnt instead of under the root directory the ln -s commands won't…
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scp 9.2GB file locks up AWS EC2 t2.small instance consistently

I have a 9.2GB file which I want to transfer into my AWS t2.small instance for backup purposes. When I start scp, it copies the file at around 3.4MB per second, which results in about 45 minutes expected transfer time. Some time down the track the…
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Share disk among Windows EC2 Instances

I am planning to use a 36 vCPU EC2 instance for compiling a large C++ project on Windows (7, 10 or Server). Due to high cost, this instance will only run when we need it, and then for 1-2 hours. From time to time we need to do maintenance on the C…
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AWS EC2 Instance Not Reachable anymore

My previously working ec2 instance is suddenly not accessible through SSH or HTTP. This is what I have tried so far: Rebooting Instance Shutting down and starting up My instance system logs are empty Created new instance, detached volume and…
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Which is more cost effective: Amazon EC2 snapshot or AMI?

I have an EBS based Amazon EC2 instance (m4.xlarge) up and running. This one, say example has been in use for a while and is in a state that we would like to have for all our future instances. Which of the following two approaches would be more…
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How can I copy an AMI between regions in AWS?

We are having difficulty copying an AMI we have created in our California VPC to our Oregon VPC as the AKI and ARI are not available in Oregon. The AKI/ARI we are using in California are as follows. aki-f70657b2 ari-ff0657ba When I try and copy the…
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How to take EBS Volume snapshot and store to S3 Reduced Redundancy?

By default, EBS Volume snapshots on AWS are stored to S3 Standard storage. I would like to figure out how to direct those snapshots to Reduced Redundancy storage instead. I've been trudging through documentation without finding the magic AWS CLI…
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Unable to make admin interface connection to server when moving a mailbox

I have an existing Exchange 2003 server running on Windows Server 2003. I am in the process of replacing our current server infrastructure and virtualizing it all in Hyper-V. I have Essential Business Server 2008 installed in 3 separate VMs and…
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