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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't find the private IP address for my Amazon-RDS instance

I moved my Master/slave database architecture to Amazon RDS and everything works fine. But I have a slave out of the RDS service which should keep sync with the new Master server, to do so I have to point my DB domain name master-db.myawsserver.com…
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Use IAM to Allow User to Edit AWS / EC2 Security Groups?

I am trying to grant an IAM group the ability to edit our EC2 Security Groups, but I have been unable to get this working without granting access to everything in EC2. I have tried several versions of this: { "Version": "2012-10-17", …
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How to upgrade to the latest AMI in AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

I'm running an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and it looks like I need to create a new environment if I want to use the latest AMI. If I knew what the latest AMI id was, I could update it in the environment configuration. Is there a place…
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Which AWS features are EBS backed?

I recently read an article AWS: The good, the bad and ugly, which mentioned that they've moved off of all EBS backed AWS features. What features are explicity (EBS backed EC2 instances) or implicitly (AWS web console) backed by EBS?
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Why don't I have permissions to edit an S3 bucket policy when logged on as the person who created the AWS account

I am new to AWS. I am setting up an S3 bucket that I want to use to store media files for a Django App I am developing. I am logged in as the person who created the AWS account, but when I click on the permissions tab and then try to edit the bucket…
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Deleting S3 files with a given prefix only

We have a bucket with more than 500,000 objects in it. I'm assigned a job where I've to delete files which have a specific prefix. There are around 300,000 files with the given prefix in the bucket. For eg If there are 3…
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What is an Amazon Route53 "Alias" DNS record?

AWS Route53 Alias value Consider a domain registered on AWS Route53. HTTP requests to this domain should be served from a AWS CloudFront CDN distribution. In order to achieve this, an alias A record is defined: dig results However, dig results…
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2 ELBs (ALBs) to 1 target group, possible?

I have the following scheme: Internet <-> elb1external <-> varnish <-> elb2internal <-> targetgroupofwebnodes But some /static/* & /media/* are routed to targetgroupofwebnodes from elb1external directly, around varnish & second ELB, so I need both…
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Install of MySQL hangs on Ubuntu 16.04

I’m trying to install MySQL server on Ubuntu 16.04 using: sudo apt-get install mysql-server I get asked to set and confirm root password and then the install hangs at: Renaming removed key_buffer and myisam-recover options (if present) I’ve exited…
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How to avoid GRUB errors after running apt-get upgrade - Ubuntu

I'm running ubuntu 14.04 on an EC2. After running apt-get upgrade, I'm prompted with a screen that asks me to reinstall GRUB boot loader The GRUB boot loader was previously installed to a disk that is no longer present, or whose unique identifier…
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How to automatically update nginx upstream server list when aws ec2 hostname changes or increases?

I want to setup autoscaling in AWS. I don't want to use Elastic Load Balancer. Autoscalling in Amazon creates EC2 instances seamlessly during demand spikes to maintain performance, and decreases automatically during demand lulls to minimize…
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What is the HeavyUsage charge on AWS EC2?

I have a new charge on my AWS account yesterday (~$40). When I dug in a bit it comes from a category called USW2-HeavyUsage:r4.large($). I know what the USW2 is for and what the r4.large is for. What is the HeavyUsage referring to? the r4.large is…
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How to “switch role” in aws-cli?

I'm contracting for a company that has multiple aws accounts. They gave me access to the Login account and I "Switch Role" in the web console to the Project account I work on. In the web gui it works. How do I do the same with aws-cli?? I only have…
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Elastic Beanstalk stuck for more than 12 hrs

I have an EB application that is stuck with this error: Failed Environment update activity. Reason: Internal Failure. I can not abort anything and I cannot change any configuration.. I dont know what to do, because every thing I do, it says: Could…
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How can I use port tunneling to connect to a private database instance through a network bastion?

I have a network bastion which is publicly accessible at example.compute-1.amazonaws.com and a private postgres database instance at postgres.example.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432 I can ssh into the bastion using $ ssh -i key.pem…
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