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Questions tagged [amazon-web-services]

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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Invalid format for New Relic licence when installing on Elastic Beanstalk

We've created an app that is running on an Elastic Beanstalk instance, 64 bit PHP version 5.4 (so not legacy). I've used the New Relic installation instructions to install New Relic, and viewing phpinfo shows that New Relic is installed. However,…
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port forwarding through AWS VPC NAT

Yes, I have already scoured the internet and read most of the popular IPTables / DNAT guides / pages / posts. My Problem Summary I have a VPC with several subnets. One subnet in particular requires an EIP for internet connectivity. I have a web…
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Is using Elastic Beanstalk worth the hassle if using Nginx?

AWS Elastic Beanstalk still doesn't support Nginx out of the box for PHP, Python, or Ruby. Regardless of how strange that is, I'm wondering whether it is worth the hassle to configure my existing PHP web application to be an Elastic Beanstalk…
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How to temporarily redirect traffic from an Elastic Load Balancer?

I'm running an application on Elastic Beanstalk, an whenever I need to deploy a new version, I need to: deploy the version on Elastic Beanstalk, which takes a minute or so patch the database with any SQL patches that come with the new version,…
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AWS VPC ACL for private subnets

I created a VPC using the VPC wizard with two subnets (public and private), and a NAT in front of the private subnet. Looking at the ACL for the the subnets, there was a rule to allow all INBOUND traffic for 0.0.0.0/0. I'd like to disallow any…
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Troubleshooting AWS EC2 site connection timeout in browser

I'm a newcomer to AWS, and am using the free tier to test personal Django projects. However, when I try to access the IP address, the browser gives a timeout error. The site works locally, and the timeout error shows when accessing via wireless or…
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Blocking repeated http requests in Apache behind a load balancer

I have a number of EC2 servers on AWS running apache behind a load balancer (ELB). Every now and then some IP address abuses the API hosted on the EC2 servers and causes a denial of service. I have no access to the load balancer so I need to block…
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Creating an Sails.js Application on AWS AMI instance

So I followed the directions here and created a sample application on a brand new linux machine. No Apache, no anything, trying to use Node, express, etc to handle incoming http requests. Sails says: info: Server lifted in…
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AWS Load Balancer and IPv6

Allow me to apologize ahead of time. I know this question has been asked and in one way or another answered multiple times across the net. Problem is, all the solutions and answers are contradicting sometimes and just confusing me ultimately. I was…
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How to view user spending on Amazon EC2

Is there any way to view dollars and resources spent for individual users managed through the Amazon IAM service? I'm tasked with administering sub-accounts on behalf of an owner of an AWS account. The sub-accounts have permissions to launch EC2…
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DNS resolution of "Public DNS" name for EC2 instance in same region returning public IP

Normally, EC2 public DNS names will resolve to internal IPs from within an EC2 region. However from one EC2 instance, we're seeing these always resolve to public IPs. We have confirmed that it is using the same amazon nameserver as other…
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Avoiding downtime while switching CNAMEs with AWS's Route53

I'm trying to make a seamless transition from Heroku to AWS. Currently, DNS is being handled by Route53, with a CNAME record sending traffic to the heroku SSL subdomain. I need to change this to an A Alias record, pointing to the new Elastic Load…
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Conditionally rewriting From and Reply-To headers in Postfix

I've got a web app running on Amazon AWS and it's using Amazon SES to send emails. One of the things I really want this system to do is to be able to forward emails to certain addresses from anyone who mails it, for example if some random person…
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How do I simulate a server failure in Amazon EC2?

Obviously, Amazon EC2 servers are still running on physical hardware and therefore can have catastrophic failures. And architecturally, I should be building an app that scales horizontally and works around those failures. How can I simulate an EC2…
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VPC SSH port forward into private subnet

Ok, so I've been racking my brain for DAYS on this dilema. I have a VPC setup with a public subnet, and a private subnet. The NAT is in place of course. I can connect from SSH into a instance in the public subnet, as well as the NAT. I can even ssh…
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