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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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Elastic Beanstalk force https

I'm having issues forcing HTTPS with a site that I'm deploying through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. It's a frontend application using EmberJS. I've been going around in circles for many days trying to figure out how to redirect http traffic to https. I'm…
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AWS Cloudformation and manual changes

I can't seem to find any documentation about what happens when you manually mess with Cloudformation's objects. I see it tags its objects, but does it recover if, say, someone deletes a routing rule? EDIT: Just got two contradicting answers. I'd…
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AWS CloudFormation returning "Invalid request" when trying to create a AWS::Route53::RecordSet

I'm at a loss on this one. 99% of the time CloudFormation is pretty good at giving you some kind of debug message you can work with, but "Invalid request" has left me stumped, especially when the resource is pretty simple to begin with. This is said…
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How does Linux pick which network interface to use?

Let's say I have a machine with two network adapters on different subnets, eth0 (10.0.100.5) and eth1 (10.0.200.5). Assuming both subnets have routes to the internet (though their own NATs) and to the rest of the local network (though their own…
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AWS EC2 migration to new instance type with SSD Drives

I have MySQL running on an m1.xlarge instance with a 100GB EBS volume holding the data files. I would like to migrate to a m3.2xlarge instance and place the data files on the new 2 x 80GB SSD drives. I stopped my instance, changed the type…
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Cloudwatch mon-put-instance-data not reporting on AMI-cloned instance

After cloning an EC2 instance using AMI (to change a hosts security group), none of the statistics reported by the Amazon-provided mon-put-instance-data.pl script are showing up in CloudWatch. I can confirm that the script is reporting the data to…
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How to configure the login message in Ubuntu?

Each time I SSH into my AWS Ubuntu servers I see a system information message, showing load, memory usage and packages available to install, like this: Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-51-virtual x86_64) * Documentation: …
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How to change default user (ubuntu) via CloudInit on AWS

I'm using CloudInit to automate the startup of my instances on AWS. I followed the (scarce) documentation available at http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/annotate/head%3A/doc/examples/cloud-config.txt and examples on…
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Amazon EC2 Public DNS is useless?

Seems the Public DNS, e.g. ec2-x-x-x-x.compute-1.amazonaws.com will be changed when you stop or terminated the instance. So this mean they have the same life span as the ec2 public IP address, so why should I use this public DNS? They are not easy…
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set Google Apps SPF record in Amazon AWS Route 53

I'm using the new AWS GUI for Route 53 to setup my domain records. However, the AWS console won't accept the recommended Google Apps SPF record, v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all (found here). It keeps giving me an error stating The record set…
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Setting Up ELB with SSL - What is Backend Authentication?

I started setting up Amazon's Elastic Load Balancing Service for my server pool and I need to setup HTTPS/SSL. I have all my SSL Certificates setup, but then I come to the step for backend authentication and I'm unsure what certificate is required…
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Endless Redirect Loop with AWS ELB and wordpress site using wordpress https plugin

I have configured an AWS ELB to point to my Ubuntu Server running the Wordpress 3.2.1. Everything worked great on the server until I put it behind a load balancer. I setup the load balancer to forward port 80 to port 80 and port 443 to port 80. I…
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How to set a binary secret value from the CLI for AWS Secrets Manager

How do I set a binary value on a secret in AWS Secrets Manager using the CLI? The docs say: --secret-binary (blob) (Optional) Specifies binary data that you want to encrypt and store in the new version of the secret. To use this parameter in the…
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Create an ISO of an AWS EC2 Server

I would like to create an ISO of my AWS EC2 server so that I can use that as a development test environment on my local machine. Is this possible?
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AWS Fargate + Application Load Balancer SSL Termination

I'm trying to configure ECS Fargate behind an Application Loader Balancer (ELBv2), and I would like to terminate the TLS/SSL connections on the ALB, and send HTTP traffic (port 80) to the Fargate images, which listen on port 80. This is the diagram…
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