Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform "in the cloud". If you have a question about a specific web service, consider asking on its tag, e.g., amazon-ec2.
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in cloudformation is it possible to create a reusable string?
i have a string the is formed from a number of variables which i use for many different things such as Tags and host names.
is there a way of creating a reusable string that i can just Ref though out the template?
any thoughts on this would be…
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Backing up data stored on Amazon S3
I have an EC2 instance running a web server that stores users' uploaded files to S3. The files are written once and never change, but are retrieved occasionally by the users. We will likely accumulate somewhere around 200-500GB of data per year. We…
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AWS - removing ec2-user from sudo list
I'm running a production-level Amazon ec2 instance, and I want to close out root privileges to all users. Normally, when one logs in to the instance as ec2-user, the ec2-user immediately gets sudo privileges, which I am trying to do away with in…
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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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Working around an AWS network ACL rule limit
At a maximum, a VPC network ACL can have 40 rules applied.
I have a list of over 50 IP addresses that I need to explicitly block access to in our systems, over any port and any protocol. This is an ideal purpose for an ACL, but the limit is…
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Amazon S3 Console: How to find total number of files with in a folder?
So I can see S3 console and can get into my folder with files listing but I don't find way to find total number of files in it other than going thru pagination which does not work considering thousands of files.
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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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How do a I edit .conf file for a postgres AWS RDS?
I would like to alter pg_hba.conf in my postgres RDS instance so that I can use cert authentication. I have found the Parameters Group manager in the RDS which allows me to alter parameters but it just references a path for pg_hba.conf. It doesn't…
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What algorithm does Amazon ELB use to balance load?
I found this in the official ELB documentation
By default, a load balancer routes each request independently to the
application instance with the smallest load.
but an article on Newvem says that ELB supports only Round Robin…
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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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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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Docker login to AWS ECR from GitLab CI fails with "dial tcp: lookup docker on x.x.x.x:53: no such host" when pulling docker:dind from ECR
I'm working on porting a collection of Docker images used for GitLab CI/CD building and deployment from Dockerhub to AWS public ECR.
Everything works as it should except for the standard Docker image that we use as a Docker-in-Docker service.
The…
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What are actual Tesla M60 models used by AWS?
Wikipedia says that the Tesla M60 has 2x8 GB RAM (whatever it means) and TDP 225–300 W.
I use an EC2 instance (g3s.xlarge) which is supposed to have a Tesla M60. But nvidia-smi command says it has 8GB ram and max power limit 150W:
> sudo…
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Install AWS SSL Certificate to EC2 instance without load balancer
I'm new with AWS and facing some confusion with ACM SSL certificate installation to an EC2 instance.
Is it possible to install the certificate without using ELB or Cloudfront. I don't need load balancer because the app is running on a single…
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How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS on AWS Application Load Balancer?
Our website needs HIPAA compliance so everything needs to be encrypted. I don't want client to get an error message when they put in "http://mysite.com", so I need to support both HTTP and HTTPS, and redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Am I right?
I did it…
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