Questions tagged [amazon-web-services]

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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OpenSSL on Windows Server extract certificate chain from pfx

I'm trying to upload our certificate to the AWS certificate store for use with CloudFront. First I tried uploading it without the chain bundle. That resulted in an error when I tried to enable it on the CloudFront endpoint, saying that it didn't…
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AWS CloudFormation give EC2 instance SSH Keys to other servers

I'm creating an EC2 instance using CloudFormation. The first thing I want to do is checkout a git repository containing puppet manifests. To do this I need an SSH key. What is the best way to get the key on to the server? This is what I've…
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Why does port 6379 need to be opened on the security group for elasticache?

I made a redis cluster and created a new security group called cache-access. If I ssh into an ec2 server and try to access a cache node, it works if two conditions are met: ec2 server belongs to cache-access security group cache-access security…
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AMI Without Reboot on AWS EC2 on a Web Server

I am running a webserver with very little writes (apart from log files). According to amazon: When enabled, Amazon EC2 does not shut down the instance before creating the image. When this option is used, file system integrity on the created…
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Amazon RDS instance and hostname resolution

I have a question about EC2 and RDS instances. I'd like to restrict connection to the database only from one particular EC2 instance using MySQL users. Security groups allow MySQL communication from EC2 instances to the RDS instances. The situation…
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Unable to ping/ssh/telnet new EC2 linux instance

I just created a new EC2 instance. Once the instance is running and has passed health checks, I try to connect to its IP via telnet on port 22 (because SSH wasn't working I'm going to basics). I have: opened security group's ports 22 and 80 create…
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EBS volume mount point should be disk or partition

With community CentOS 7 HVM image, after adding another EBS volume to my EC2 instance, lsblk command shows this NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvda 202:0 0 8G 0 disk -xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part / xvdb 202:16 0 16G 0…
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Resolve route 53 private hosted zone names in my network

I have created an AWS VPC and connected my network to it over VPN. I have a private hosted zone within route 53 and the DNS records in it resolve fine in my EC2 instances on the same VPC. Is there any way to resolve these records from my network…
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How to implement DHCP, DNS, hostnames on AWS VPC

This is what I THINK can happen and what I want. I create a VPC in Amazon, put a public subnet into it, put a puppet server instance and a full stack web server instance in the VPC. Now I set the hostname for the puppet server 'puppet' and for the…
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How to setup routing for UDP in AWS instance

I'm new to AWS and I'm wondering if any one could provide a guild/link on how to go about setting up, what I'm guessing is VPC, so that I can send UDP packets to and from my instance via my public IP. For example I'm trying right now on my local…
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Can I replace local Microsoft Active Directory with AWS Directory Service?

We have a very basic AD usage (basically manage user password reset) and for that we have to maintain a old Windows server. All the services our internal users access are on the cloud (GMail, Google Drive, Salesforce, etc), so since we are very…
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"Unsupported osfamily: Linux" when trying to install Apache using Puppet

I'm trying to setup a simple Puppet setup on AWS EC2 using the latest Amazon Linux AMI. I've followed through the install guide for RHEL and have a puppetmasterd daemon running. When apply the following manifest in…
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connect to db instance in private VPC subnet with MySQL Workbench

How do I connect to an AWS (or other) instance in a private subnet in a VPC using MySQL Workbench ? My arrangement is a typical aws Scenario 2 : I can: - SSH into my NAT instance located in my VPC public subnet - SSH from my NAT instance into the…
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Certificate Chain with AWS ELB & GoDaddy Certs

I'm trying to setup SSL on my AWS ELB, but I am thus far unable to figure out what goes into the "Certificate Chain" field. I receive the following error: Unable to validate certificate chain. The certificate chain must start with the immediate…
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Custom domain name for AWS RDS

What possible ways to translate entry point like my-name.ck4k21dvamqbq9.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432 to db.domain.com? For own instances we use map in /etc/hosts based on private ip. Storing long entry point name a little bit confusing, and…
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