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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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Can I re-use an EBS volume with AWS ASG?

I want to create an ASG such that I can reuse existing EBS volumes (because I have persistent data on those volumes) to new EC2 instances that are instantiated via ASG. Is this possible? Update copied from comment To clarify my original question,…
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Does Heartbleed affect AWS Elastic Load Balancer?

The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability (http://heartbleed.com/) affects OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f (inclusive) I use Amazon Elastic Load Balancer to terminate my SSL connections. Is ELB vulnerable?
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/etc/security/limits.conf soft nproc limit appears to be ignored

My MongoDB database was running into problems under load, with the following errors spamming the logs: [initandlisten] pthread_create failed: errno:11 Resource temporarily unavailable [initandlisten] can't create new thread, closing connection I've…
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AMI with or without reboot on AWS EC2

When creating AMI's from an EC2 instance I always check "no reboot", I've been wondering, what are the pros/cons of creating images with/without a reboot? Does keeping the server live affect the quality of the ami produced or is it just as good as a…
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How do I set an MX record in Route53 for a GoDaddy domain?

Can't seem to find an answer to this question on AWS' forum, not in the Route53 manual, nor on Stackoverflow/Serverfault in a way that makes sense...and GoDaddy's support sure as heck ain't got an answer: How do I set an MX record in Route53 for a…
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How to allow elastic load balancer through port 80 in security groups?

I want to temporarily block port 80 for the outside world, but want the load balancer to pass through the firewall (via security group) so it won't see the instance as unhealthy. How can I do that? Update: I also want to know how can I allow only…
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Download existing EC2 key pair

I am playing around with Amazon EC2 and have (finally) managed to SSH into the box from my home machine. Now I want to connect from my work machine but neglected to copy the key pair on a USB key. Is there a way of downloading an existing key pair…
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Why is my "volume bytes used" always increasing on my Amazon Aurora cluster?

I have an Amazon (AWS) Aurora DB cluster, and every day, its [Billed] Volume Bytes Used is increasing. I have checked the size of all my tables (in all my databases on that cluster) using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES table: SELECT…
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Is there a way to stop the AWS Elasticsearch?

I setup an AWS Elasticsearch Domain recently but I didn't see a way to stop it (like you can with an EC2 instance), which means I'm continuously billed. At this stage I just need to do some testing and don't require a full-time cluster. The only…
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How do I get AWS CloudFormation to recreate a resource I manually deleted?

I'm experimenting with CloudFormation right now. I deployed a stack that included an AutoScalingGroup (and LaunchConfig and CloudFormation::Init), LoadBalancer, a single EC2 instance (and CloudFormation::Init), and a couple security groups. If I…
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How to stop elastic beanstalk without terminating?

Is there any way to stop an elastic beanstalk environment as opposed to terminating it? There are times during testing that I would prefer to stop the environment so that I'm not being charged. However, I'm not seeing a way to do this via the GUI.…
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Is it possible to get aws ec2 instance id based on its IP address

I have list of IP addressed, I want to find if instances associated with the IP address are still running or terminated. I am launching and terminating lot of instances on daily basis, just want to remove their certificates from puppetmaster. If…
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Amazon EC2 Security Group inbound rule with a dynamic IP

I'm looking for clarification on what I see as a potential problem with EC2 Security Groups. I'm setting up a Security Group for connecting to linux instances. I've created "anywhere" rules for HTTP and HTTPS access. For my SSH rule, the amazon…
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AWS ElastiCache/SimpleQueue vs DynamoDB

I'm wondering about the rationale for using ElastiCache/SimpleQueue vs just having "Cache" and "Queue" tables inside of DynamoDB respectively. It seems that the network latency to the Cache/Queue services would trump a lot of the performance gains,…
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Allow traffic from any instance in AWS VPC

'm trying to create a security group that allows all inbound traffic originating from within my VPC. I thought I could simply specify my CIDR block, but that doesn't seem to work and requests fail unless I create a rule which allows inbound traffic…
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