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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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Shrinking Amazon EBS volume size

I have seen this answer for growing EBS volumes, but I would like to shrink one. The default Ubuntu Server images are 15 GB while I really need only 2 GB max (I use a different volume for data). Is there a way to shrink the size of the volume?
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How to verify a AWS VPC (S3) endpoint works?

I added a VPC endpoint to my VPC using CloudFormation, and allowed s3 usage. The routes are visible in the AWS console, but not in the local routing tables of the EC2 instances: $ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway …
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Is there a way to speed up AWS CodeDeploy

I'm using AWS CodeDeploy to deploy my sites, and I noticed it's not very consistent in speed; sometimes it's pretty fast, but other times each step of a deployment can take minutes. This is pretty annoying when a deployment should be performed fast,…
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Why can't I ping my freshly set up amazon web service EC2 instance?

I was following this tut on how to set up a EC2 instance on Ubuntu but qhen trying to execute ssh command on my IP address, I had an operation Timeout. So I tried to ping it but no chance neither. got Request timeout Any idea what to do to make it…
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"Update Your Amazon RDS SSL/TLS Certificates by October 31, 2019"

I, like a lot of people, received an email saying to update my RDS instance to use the new rds-ca-2019 certificate for SSL connections (previous being rds-ca-2015 which expires March 5, 2020). Their documentation about the process is a little…
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Aws vpc default route table in CloudFormation

Am I missing something but is there no way to add a route via CloudFormation to the default route table that comes provisioned with a VPC?
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How can I determine if it is cost-effective to move my site to cloud solution?

I have a large, busy site; it currently runs completely on a dedicated server that I rent each month for ~$700. It has three parts that I think I could carve off to a cloud solution: Media (image/video) file hosting. Currently I have something like…
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How to automatically restart Nginx when it goes down

I have deployed my application onto AWS EC2 and I want to implement automation where if I restart my instance or when the Nginx web server is down, it will restart by itself. I do not really know where to start with this. I heard I can use crontab…
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Can't add SSL listener, Server Certificate not found for the key

I'm am trying to set up SSL on my load balancer with a certificate I purchased from GoDaddy. When trying to upload the certificate in the console I got an error Failed to create load balancer: Server Certificate not found for the key:…
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Is AWS's Elastic Load Balancer a single point of failure?

I am looking at moving our application up to Amazon Web Services. The plan is to have all of the EC2 instances mirrored across two availability zones. Due to data transfer costs, we will be staying in a single AWS region (Oregon). The multiple AZs…
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No targets available when trying to set alias target from Route 53 to S3

I'm trying to setup a simple Amazon AWS S3 based website, as explained here. I've setup the S3 bucket (simples3websitetest.com), gave it the (hopefully) right permissions: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { …
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How do I determine the ARN of my Amazon route53-hosted zone?

I've got some machines which automatically update DNS in Route53. So far there are only two zones in Route53, and both of them are updated this way, so I have an IAM policy which says "blah blah blah, Resource: "*"" and everything is good. Now I…
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How to start and stop AWS EC2 instance based on a time based schedule

Is there an easy way to start and stop AWS EC2 instances at a given time each day? This could save me quite a lot of money for my development and test servers.
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How can I see my IOPS burst credits?

I've been reading some EBS docs and they are talking about "I/O credit balance" How can I view my current (or historical) credit balance? Each volume receives an initial I/O credit balance of 5,400,000 I/O credits, which is enough to sustain…
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Restore a versioned S3 bucket to a particular point in time

Let's say I've got S3 versioning enabled for my bucket: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Versioning.html Then, let's say someone (for example, junior employee) messes up the S3 bucket (deletes some files accidentally, etc.) How can I…
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