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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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How to increase the timeout of Elastic Beanstalk deployments?

As part of my application deployment, I have some commands in my .ebextensions config files. It might take 20 minutes or more for all the commands to complete, the first time the commands are run (cloning big repositories). Unfortunately, this…
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What are the pros and cons of AWS Elastic Beanstalk compared with other deployment strategies?

I'm pretty new to the whole Netflix OSS stack and deployments in general. As a background for my current level of knowledge ops-wise, my main role is as a front-end application engineer. However, I enjoy the operations side of things, so I'm…
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Is It Possible to Copy an AWS Security Group?

We have some security groups that have quite a few rules in them. Rather than having to recreate the same rules for a number of security groups just to accommodate minor differences, is it possible to copy a security group to use as a starting…
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Internal DNS inside Amazon AWS VPC

I am getting started on understanding VPC but am not seeing a good internal DNS solution. For example, we're using a non-RDS database server which other servers in the VPC connect to. I would like to connect by name, not IP. Partly this is so I…
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Which is the fastest way to copy 400G of files from an ec2 elastic block store volume to s3?

I have to copy 400G of files from an elastic block store volume to an s3 bucket... Those are about 300k files of ~1Mb I've tried s3cmd and s3fuse, both of them are really, really slow.. s3cmd ran for a complete day, said it finished copying, and…
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How can I automatically cycle a new image in an AWS Auto Scaling Group?

I have a web application setup with a load balancer and auto scaling group to manage scaling. The source code is in a git repository so I don't have to update the images when the code changes, but occasionally the environment changes so we create a…
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Why do cloud compute instances spin up VMs and not containers?

In AWS for example, when I spin up a new EC2 instance, it loads up a new VM, then populate the VM with a container image. This is the reason why spinning up new EC2 instances take 60-90 seconds to start. Out of curiosity, what are the disadvantages…
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Who's behind community AMIs on Amazon EC2?

I've been using AWS for years, but have never ventured outside the Quick Start and AWS Marketplace sections when launching an EC2 instance. The AMIs from the AWS Marketplace look trustable, they have a link to the seller profile, etc.: Compare this…
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AWS Fargate service: scale to zero?

I've recently migrated a small web application to AWS using Fargate and Aurora Serverless. The application doesn't get much traffic so my goal is to save cost while no one is using it. Aurora Serverless seems to do this for me on the DB side…
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AWS EC2 what is a reservation ID exactly and what does it represent?

I made a script that creates snapshots of our EC2 volumes. The script looks at which instances are running, which volumes are connected to those instances, and then creates snapshots for those volumes, ignoring the rest. Using describe-instances, I…
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Highest value of max_connections in AWS RDS micro instance

Currently, the value for the max_connections parameter in a MySQL RDS t1.micro server model is {DBInstanceClassMemory/12582880} is 32. Since my server does not allowing any more connections after 32, what is the Maximum safe value for…
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In AWS, does an hour of usage get charged just for an instance being in the "running" state?

When AWS documentation and pricing refer to "usage" does this simply mean "if the instance is on" instead of "if the instance is on and doing work". E.g., if I had an EC2 instance running but it was idle (CPU=0%), I assume I still get charged for…
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EC2 Update my existing AMI

I'm using Elastic Load Balancing to load balance my Auto Scaling Group, for that I have a private AMI that hold my application server (Tomcat) and my web app deployed to it as war ... Now everything works fine ... what if I need to change my tomcat…
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How to add user with SFTP/ FTP access to '/var/www/html/website_abc' folder on Amazon EC2 Centos?

Possible Duplicate: Linux directory permissions I'm working with some third-party developers and I would like to grant SFTP (or FTP) access to the root folder for a website they're working on i.e. '/var/www/html/website_abc' so that they could…
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How to upload a file into S3 bucket using CloudFormation script?

How do I upload a file into my AWS S3 bucket CloudFormation template? AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09' Resources: S3Bucket: Type: AWS::S3::Bucket Properties: AccessControl: PublicRead BucketName: s3bucketuser …
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