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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 machine images and licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I browsed Amazon Machine Images (AMI) available at Amazon for using VM in the cloud, and found some machines containing Visual Studio 2008 and Office. I wonder how it this…
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Performance of SQL Server on Amazon EC2?

Does anyone have performance stories to share about running SQL Server 2008 on Amazon EC2 instances? We are performing some tests, and not unexpectedly see some disk IO performance issues. Specifically, avg disk queues backing up as much as 6,500…
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How can I increase cpu performance on Amazon EC2 running instance?

I have running Ubuntu 10.04 instance with EBS storage. Current type of my instance m1.small. I want to increase cpu performance, so I guess I should "convert" that instance to c1.medium. How can I do that? Can I do it "on fly" or I should stop it…
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Need to scale quickly. Which cloud service should I use?

Traffic to my facebook app is growing at an insane rate and I need some suggestions on how to scale. I'm probably not going to even be able to keep it running by the day's end, as it's hosted from my already overloaded dedicated server. I need to…
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Uploading files to EC2 Windows instance

I've created an instance of a Windows Server 2008 AMI at Amazon EC2. I now need to upload some installation files to it. One way to do this would be to activate the FTP server in Windows, set up an account and use that to upload files. Is there a…
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IPSec Tunnel to Amazon EC2 - Netkey, NAT, and routing issue

I'm working on getting an IPSec VPN working between Amazon EC2 and my on-premise. The goal is to be able to safely administer stuff, up/download data, etc. over that tunnel. I have gotten the tunnel up in openswan between a Fedora 12 instance with…
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What's better for deploying a website + DB on EC2: 2 small VM or a large one?

I'm planning the deployment of a mid-sized website with a SQL Server Standard DB. I've chosen Amazon EC2 to deploy it. I now have to choose between these 2 options: 1) get 2 small instances (1 core each, 1.7 GB of ram each): one for the IIS…
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Run command remotely on Windows computer

I have a Windows Server 2008 instance on Amazon EC2 (Amazon's cloud compute platform, which provides VMs in the cloud). It has an external IP, and I have an admin account on the box. I would like to 'bootstrap' this instance remotely i.e. I want to…
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Production monitoring for EC2 instances

I'm setting up my first production instance on EC2 and want to make sure I have all necessary monitoring in place. There are three different types of things I want to monitor: Is the instance running? EC2 instances can be terminated without…
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Auto re-attach EBS volume on start-up?

I'm setting up a database server on EC2, and I need to ensure that an EBS volume is automatically attached and is available before the database service starts up. I'm using SMF so I can test whether a particular filesystem is available before…
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Where is the network connection enabled/disabled setting stored?

I have an Amazon EC2 instance of Windows Server 2008 where some genius managed to disable the network connection so that the instance is now isolated in its own little universe. I can shut down the instance and edit the "C:\" drive volume by…
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with ec2, are all internal instances able to connect to each other, or does the security group apply?

Just a little confused, normally a firewall applies to everything externally, and all internal servers (instances) can connect freely with each other. With AWS, it comes with a firewall/security group. Do these settings apply to each instance? what…
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How can I generate filesystem images that are usable on many different virtualization systems?

I have written a script that generates a root filesystem image (based on Debian lenny) suitable for User-Mode Linux. (Essentially this script creates a filesystem image, mounts it with a loop device, uses debootstrap to create a lenny install, sets…
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Mounting an Amazon EC2 instance on MAC OS X

What are some methods for transferring files to and from Amazon EC2 instances. I'm looking for solutions / tools for editing files as well as copying files to EC2 instances from both Mac and Windows. For example, what are some solutions for…
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AWS - Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application?

Looking for a clarification and guidance on the best practice. Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application? Application server or S3? We will be storing user related images and thumbnails on S3. We will not be using CloudFront…
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