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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides self-service, on-demand, pay-for-what-you-use computing infrastructure resources.

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service is part of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.

EC2 offers computing power in the cloud, on demand. The 'Elastic' part of the name refers to the ability to scale both up and down, as needed.

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EC2 / LAMP with a temporary File System

Ok - this is a weird one. I've now got my domain pointing to a new EC2 instance running our website, but initially I thought I had some issues with file permissions, has now turned to be where the web service is holding a completely separate file…
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How to configure network between ec2 servers and remote workstations?

I have several ec2 servers and ten remote workstations all over the world. Both servers and workstations may be windows or linux. The servers have static IP, the workstations don't. I need to configure the network in such way that: all workstations…
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EC2 database server failover strategy

I am planning to deploy my web app to EC2. I have several webserver instances. I have 1 primary database instance. I have 1 failover database instance. I need a strategy to redirect the webservers to the failover database instance IP when the…
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EC2: spreading out networking across multiple EC2's automatically

I have a system where raspberry Pi's connect to a VPN hosted in an EC2 instance. The raspberry pi's essentially act as IoT devices and send images to an S3 bucket. I'm using Wireguard as the VPN as it's pretty low level and doesn't consume much CPU…
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Why free AWS EC2 server t2.micro instance of 750 hours exceed 85% in less than month?

I started to use AWS EC2 server t2.micro instance with 750 hours for 12 months on 21.02.2019 and on 14.03.2019 I received this mail: From 21.02.2019 I started just one instance and keep it running without interruption to this day. That is…
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HTTP / HTTPS outbound requests blocked in EC2 instance

TL;DR TCP traffic was blocked internally, that's why I couldn't do the requests at that time I'm having some troubles trying to make HTTP / HTTPS requests from a EC2 instance on AWS. The instance public IP is working, and I can connect via SSH. IT…
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How to check if an IP address is EC2 instance

We have an IP address in configuration file (which hosts a solr server that accepts requests at a specific port). The developer who has added that IP address in the configuration file in the source code has left the company. I feel that it might be…
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Why is my autoscaling group instance unhealthy?

I'm noticing a very strange issue with an AWS auto-scaling group. Instances are being reported (incorrectly) as being unhealthy. The instances are then being terminated and replaced unnecessarily. This is causing problems because it is leaving the…
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IPSEC between an EC2 instance and another server with a public IP

I've been able to setup IPSEC successfully between two Hetzner machine, both of which had only public IP addresses. However, I've been unsuccessful in configuring IPSEC between an EC2 instance and a Hetzner machine, because the EC2 instance has a…
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AWS Instances breeding and dying for no apparent reason

This has happened a couple of times since we moved our cluster project from Google to AWS. We have an EFS volume that's mounted on a load-balanced cluster in a Beanstalk project. I will be in the middle of setting something up, either uploading a…
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Induce reachability status check failure

I have some tools that monitor the status checks of all my organisation's EC2 instances. I'd like to test them by deliberately inducing a failure of the reachability status check (that comes by default with all EC2 instances, pictured in the EC2…
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AWS EC2 + Google Domains: Paths not getting converted

I am hosting a Python Flask web app on AWS EC2 and am mapping this AWS URL (http://myappname-env.abcxyz.us-west-2.elasticbeanstalk.com) to a domain on Google Domains (example.com). I have the A and CNAME records on the DNS page. When I go to…
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Will EC2 instance AMI's save all files when launching future instances with the AMI?

Soon my website and API will be migrated to Amazon's EC2. Correct my if I'm wrong, but my understanding of an Instance AMI works like: If I launch an EC2 Instance using a for example Amazon Linux AMI then configure the server to my liking (i.e.…
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Implications of transferring AWS EC2 t2.medium instance to EC2 t2.micro instance

I have an AWS ec2 ubuntu 18.04 t2.medium account and I no longer need the resources, so I'd like to transfer my instance to an t2.micro account. It originally was an t2.micro account that i moved up to t2.medium. My question is, I have sensitive…
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Configure email server on AWS EC2 with SmarterMail

I'm trying to move an email server we have using SmarterMail to AWS. I've provisioned a new EC2 instance using W2016, installed the software and assigned a new Elastic IP. I've opened ports for what I think it's required as in: But still don't…
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