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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 instance backup

I have an EC2 instance that I spent a lot of time setting up to run my Ruby on Rails application. The project is currently not under development and I need to take it down so we can eliminate the monthly cost. Is there a way I can download or…
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Simple, manageable DNS on EC2?

I'm working on a large network of servers sitting on EC2, and need a way for the servers to know about each other's locations in the cloud. I thought the simplest way would be to use DNS, because if I replace the EC2 instance, I simply update the…
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Amazon Ec2 cheapest possible solution

I currently run a couple of very small sites on a Webfaction VPS. It is not very powerful, but for as low as $100 / year I can run a couple of blogs and do all my experimentations on a server and the support is excellent. I'm interested in Amazon…
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Are Amazon EC2 IDs globally unique across regions?

Are Amazon EC2 IDs (instance, volume, snapshot, etc) across regions? For example, is it possible, albeit unlikely, for instance ID i-1a2b3c4d to appear in both eu-west-1 and us-east-1? I have seen Is the Amazon EC2 instance id unique forever? and…
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Visual Studio Profiler In Virtual Machine

I am unable to profile any application using Visual Studio profiler in Virtual Machines. I have used Virtual machines of Amazon EC2 at work and Virtualbox, Vmware at home. Also I have used AMD Codeanalyst profiler. But none of the combination…
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HTTP not working EC2 instance with own domain name

I have this problem I've already posted on the Amazon AWS forum. Unfortunately I haven't got a clear answer I and I was hoping you guys could help. Here's the link:…
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EC2 and Static IP's (Elastic IP's)

I'm using an elastic IP for one of my EC2 instances. I can reach the instance via the elastic IP from external machines, but from other machines in my EC2 configuration, I can ONLY reach the machine by its private IP. How can I fix this? I want my…
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What is the best way to copy large files from my workstation to a Windows Server based EC2 instance?

I would like to know if there is a better way to transfer data from my workstation to my Windows based EC2 instance. Currently I am using remote desktop copy/paste, but that is a drag as I always forget that I have the "data" on my clipboard and…
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EC2 issue using PV-Grub and custom kernel: error 21 selected disk does not exist

Over on EC2 I am trying to setup AMI's for PLD-Linux that use the new features that allow running custom kernels from inside the AMI using PV-Grub. I've setup custom AMI's many times before but can't get the kernel thing to go. Basically I have a…
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Setting up AutoScaling using GUI based interface on Amazon EC2 service

We want to setup/configure AutoScaling on Amazon EC2 services using some GUI Intrerface. Is it possible to do? As per our research, we found that it can be setup via API Queries or commandline tools only. Is it correct? Thanks in advance
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How different is an Amazon EC2 RDS DB Instance different from the normal EC2 Instance?

How different is the Amazons RDS DB Instance different from The normal EC2 Instance other than the fact that RDS DB Instance has a Database server running on it? When an EC2 Instance goes down all the data associated with it also vanishes(when you…
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Wiped out the known_hosts file on my server machine. Is it safe?

I am fairly new to managing my production server and I had some problems accessing my EC2 account with the RSA HOst key for xxx has changed message. I read on a couple of Blogs that by simply deleting the known_hosts in the /root/.ssh/ folder the…
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Automatically Port Xen Images to EC2

I have a disk image that is running under Xen right now and I'd like to port it to Amazon's EC2. How can I do this in a way that is as simple as possible? I've got a script that can build the finished image from a brand new image if this helps.
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Can I have Postfix relay for everyone on a second port?

I have a Postfix instance on an EC2 server which will need to accept mail from the outside world (e.g. port 25 will be mapped to it from a virtual IP.) I also want to use this server to send mail from my other EC2 machines. As EC2 doesn't map to the…
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Amazon EC2 instances changes server time/date on reboots and other time weirdness

I have a windows instance up in EC2. I manually set the timezone to Pacific. 1) For some reason using window's built in time sync doesn't work in the instance...but whatever. I turn off automatic time syncing... but 2) On reboot the time on the…
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