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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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How does one point a domain to a load balancer that doesn't have a stable IP?

I'm trying to point mydomain.eu to an AWS load balancer, which, by its nature, does not have a stable IP, so I think I'm supposed to point the A record to a subdomain at Amazon, but as far as I can tell the A record can only be an IP address, so I'm…
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can't type lower cased e in amazon ec2 (Amazon Linux)

After a few days of operation on my new ec2 build, the following happens: I log into SSH, everything is fine, I do my coding I return the next day, and log into SSH I cannot type a lower cased e anymore--I get the error ding when I type it I try to…
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EC2 billing for fractional hours

Amazon's EC2 billing page says that fractional hours are billed as whole hours. But does anyone know if that means they round up the hours at the end of the month, or round up the hours at the end of each instance run? E.g. if in one billing period…
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ECS cluster has no ecs instances but two ecs instances are visible in EC2

I am trying to create a very simple cluster in sydney region. It is a very straightforward setup. I specified the harddisk to be 60G. I want to have two ec2 instances in the cluster. They show up as expected in ec2 panel. However the ec2 instances…
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EC2 linux any and all upstart jobs returning "unrecognised service"

Having a nightmare migrating some upstart jobs from Ubuntu to EC2 Linux (ElasticBeanstalk) I am unable to get even the most basic task to work. I am using the script below which works perfectly on Ubuntu but returns the very unhelpful "unrecognised…
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Install & configure mod_ssl on Amazon EC2 instance

I am trying to support HTTPS traffic with the mod_ssl module on my website. I am running an Amazon EC2 instance for my server. I have installed and configured the basic LAMP packages. However, when I go to put in SSL-specific commands in my apache…
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Deny IP address on AWS ELB

I've, more or less, following configuration on AWS: Elastic load balancer with 3 machines o 3 different availability zones. My security group allows 0.0.0.0/0:80 as it's my rails application (nginx, unicorn). I was wondering if there's any way to…
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How to config Amazon Route53 working without www in sub-domain

edit: Amazon now supports this. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/root-domain-website-hosting-for-amazon-s3.html I have my domain config in Route53 at Amazon AWS exec ping command in my domain without www $ ping mydomain.com.br ping: cannot…
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How to make s3fs work with IAM roles?

We are using IAM roles to maintain the machines. We now planning to mount the s3 to our ec2 instances and do the processing as per our need. We been using s3fs tool for mounting. But that doesn't seems to be working with the IAM roles. Are there any…
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How to prevent/firewall calls to AWS EC2 Instance Metadata API?

The AWS EC2 Instance Metadata API provides a lot of useful functionality. Anyone on the actual EC2 instance can make a call to http://169.254.169.254/ and see metadata for the instance the call was made from. The security of the API is such that it…
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How can I make my web server reachable via IPv6 on the AWS platform?

My business's web site uses the AWS platform. I want the site's visitors to be able to reach my content using the IPv6 protocol. How can I add an IPv6 address?
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Can you Transfer an EC2 Instance to another AWS Account

Is there a way to give an entire EC2 instance to a different party. Basically I was managing a EC2 Server for a client and am now giving up maintenance of the server. I don't want to be billed for this instance anymore. Instead of backing up our…
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Difference between rebooting and stop-starting an amazon EC2 instance

I noticed that calling ec2.rebootInstances on an Amazon EC2 instance was much much faster than stopping and starting it again (ec2.stopInstances ec2.startInstances). It also preserved the IP address of the instance (I dont have elastic IP on…
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How to create a local backup of a remote Amazon RDS MySQL database?

How do I create a local backup of a remote Amazon RDS MySQL database? What I need to know is how to make a complete full local backup of a MySQL database (not a remote Amazon snapshot) that can be used to restore to a new database anywhere, on any…
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What is ephemeral storage good for?

I have been reading about the ephemeral storage with amazon ec2 and am trying to figure out what is the best way to use the 100s of GBs they supply you. If it isn't persistent, what can it be good for?
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