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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Nginx set_real_ip_from AWS ELB load balancer address
I have a set of Nginx servers behind an Amazon ELB load balancer. I am using set_real_ip (from the HttpRealIpModule) so that I can access the originating client IP address on these servers (for passing through to php-fpm and for use in the…
vitch
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How do I ensure my AWS free tier plan doesn't exceed the free usage limit?
I'm spinning up a free tier instance and I don't want to accidentally exceed the limit. How do I do that?
Alexander Suraphel
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AWS can not change DB Subnet Group for AWS RDS
we have to (want to..) rename our DB Subnet Groups on AWS, so i created a new DB Subnet Group with same settings as the old one. When i want to switch the Group on "Modify Tab" in AWS GUI and hit apply, aws returns:
You cannot move DB instance XXX…
opHASnoNAME
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Downtime for increasing AWS RDS storage?
I am looking to increase storage of two RDS instances (just the storage space allocated, not the instance type or other parameters). The documentation at…
Andy Shinn
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Fundamental difference between t3 and t3a EC2 instances
Both T3 and T3a instances offer the same configuration, CPU credits and network performance. The only difference that I find is T3 uses Intel processor while T3a uses AMD processor, while both are running at 2.5 GHz. Is this the only reason for…
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Kubernetes always gives 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable with multiple TLS Ingress
I have a kubernetes cluster setup by kops on Amazon Web Services
I have a 2 sites setup. One is secured via SSL/TLS/https and the other is just http. Both are Wordpress sites. Domains changed to protect site identity
Ingress config:
apiVersion:…
Greg Pagendam-Turner
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Which AWS services am I using?
When I sign into the AWS Management Console, I just see a list of all the services. How do I know which ones I'm using? Can I hide the ones I'm not using?
I much prefer the way Heroku organizes things. It shows your apps first. Then, when you click…
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How to list all VPC dependencies in AWS CLI?
I want to delete VPC through CLI. But get an error:
A client error (DependencyViolation) occurred when calling the DeleteVpc operation: The vpc 'vpc-xxx' has dependencies and cannot be deleted.
How can I list all dependencies that prevent me from…
lexsys
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Setting Access-Control-Allow-Origin on Cloudfront
I am having problems serving static assets to Firefox using AWS Cloudfront.
Chrome works perfect, but Firefox is returning a CORS error.
If I execute curl , I get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-font-opentype
Content-Length:…
Tony
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What is the rdsadmin user and should I care?
I've inherited control of an AWS MySQL RDS instance. I'm curious to know what the 'rdsadmin' user is and whether I should know the password for this or whether this is purely for use by the Amazon Web Console.
codecowboy
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How can I separate my personal Amazon account from my AWS account?
I recently enabled Amazon Web Services on my personal Amazon account, but I would like to have separate login credentials. I know that I can use IAM to create different users within AWS, but I'm still left with the same login credentials for my AWS…
Ellis
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Can't upload certificate to AWS
I'm doing:
aws iam upload-server-certificate --server-certificate-name MysiteCertificate --certificate-body Downloads/mysite/mysite.crt --private-key mysite.pem --certificate-chain Downloads/mysite/COMODOSSLCA.crt
I'm getting an error though: A…
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Nginx Solution for AWS Amazon ELB Health Checks - return 200 without IF
I have the following code that is working on Nginx to keep the AWS ELB healthcheck happy.
map $http_user_agent $ignore {
default 0;
"ELB-HealthChecker/1.0" 1;
}
server {
location / {
if ($ignore) {
access_log off;
return 200;
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Adam
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How do I set a VPC in AWS to 'default VPC' = true?
I have one VPC set up in AWS, but Default VPC is set to 'false'.
How can i change it to true, and make it the default VPC?
sam fisher
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How can I monitor daily spending on AWS?
Our infrastructure is on AWS. I want to get a daily report on how much spent on the previous day. What is the best way to do it?
Sabya
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