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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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Amazon EC2 SSH Failed to connect "Bad File Number"

This is the command I am told to use by clicking connect in the control panel ssh -i private_key.pem root@instancePublicDNS Well, that one failed so I wanted to know what happen so I ran: ssh -vvv private_key.pem…
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Public Amazon RDS database?

Is there any way to add a wildcard security group to Amazon RDS? I'm trying to connect from an EC2 under the same account, but had no luck with the security groups. So I'm resorting to just opening it up for the time being.
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Autoscaling and NFS Server

I have a WebServer say WS-1 and a NFS server say NFS-1 setup on AWS. WS-1 is being managed by an elastic load balancer and also autoscaled. It also has an EBS mounted on /var/www which contains all application code. During autoscaling if another…
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What does the ELB do to determine the health of an instance?

What specificaly is involved in an Elastic Load Balancer health check on an instance? I know that it performas an HTTP(S) "ping"; does it just deem an instance "Unhealthy" if that HTTP request returns an error status $THRESHOLD number of times in a…
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How would I created a flexible EC2 Windows 2008 boot script?

If you look at the Linux ecosystem (especially the Ubuntu and Alestic EC2 images) there is a common technique where the VMs are pre-configured to look at the EC2 user-data and use it as a boot script. The nice thing about this approach is that you…
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DNS with Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancer

I'm told that I can't make the root of a domain (example.com) a CNAME - I have to specify an IP. Given that you can't use an IP address to point at your Elastic Load Balancer, what's the best thing to do? Currently I do this: example.com - A record…
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is it possible to connect a public EC2 instance into company VPN for secure web service calls?

i'm looking for a temporary solution to allow my public web application running in EC2 to make server-side HTTP requests to a web server inside my firewall. I looked into amazon VPC, but that seems to make new EC2 instances that are not open to the…
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How do I best set up SSL for use with multiple Amazon EC2 Server instances behind a load balancer?

So, I'm running three EC2 instances behind an AWS load balancer. I want to purchase an SSL certificate to use with these machines. Should I just purchase the certificate for the load balancer's public IP address and install the certificate on each…
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Are there Amazon EC2 IAM Policy Actions for Tags?

I just had a look at the IAM user guide. Looks like the EC2 section is very short and not really detailed. Are there any IAM Policy Actions for creating/deleting EC2 insance tags? Something like ec2:CreateTags or ec2:DeleteTags? Update: Ok, I made a…
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s3fs or EBS through nfs?

Which one is better? I need to store a lot of static files ... and I wonder which one is better, cheaper and faster.
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How does Amazon EC2 operating system licensing work?

I'm new to the cloud and EC2 and am wondering how licensing of operating systems works. Specifically, i spent some time looking at amazon machine images (ami's) and some contain windows and sql server. My question is how does the licensing work: a)…
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What's the best way to pair Nagios monitoring with EC2?

I've got some NT boxes located on EC2 that I'd like to monitor. The problem is that the Nagios box needs to know an IP address it can connect to in order to do the monitoring, and the IPs of the instances change every time they start. Is there a…
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Setup local EC2 style cloud?

I was recently given 3 dual opteron 2400 servers with 4GB of RAM and 120GB hard drives. I am interested in setting up something similar to Amazon's EC2 for my own personal web development use. Basically, I would like to spin up instances from an…
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Does Amazon remove EC2 instances?

Does Amazon remove EC2 instances that that have not run for a period of time?
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SQL Server on EC2: Where do you put the database?

If I run SQL Server 2008 on an EC2 instance.... what are my options for the location of the mdf ? If it is in the local instance storage, I can lose it when the instance reboots. (My understanding is that the instance can reboot once or twice a…
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