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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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Drop/Truncate DynamoDB table with AWS Data Pipeline

I have set up a Data Pipeline that imports files from an S3 bucket to a DynamoDB table, based on the predefined example. I want to truncate the table (or drop and create a new one) every time the import job starts. Of course this is possible with…
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Apache 2.4.9 100% CPU load of random workers

I own a t1.micro EC2 instance. After release upgrade of Ubuntu to saucy I got Apache 2.4.6 and I started noticing 100% CPU load like this top - 19:37:58 up 2:55, 2 users, load average: 3.90, 2.90, 1.82 Tasks: 95 total, 4 running, 91 sleeping,…
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Does AWS EC2 have limits on concurrent connections?

No matter what I do to my EC2 instance, any size and with apache/ubuntu. I can't get it to go over 1400 concurrent connections. Have set the prefork settings high, set ulimit to 1000000 Is this something to do with AWS?
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Running commands/tasks on multiple EC2 instances simultaneously

I've been given a task where I have to utilize about 200 EC2 instances in AWS. Since I'm completely new to AWS, I'm having trouble doing basic stuff. Each instance is a Ubuntu and they all have the same 4 key softwares installed on them. I have to…
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Is it possible to add computers in a particular IP range to a particular Active Directory group?

I'm using AWS and have a VPC which is connected to the local network via a VPN. I can launch EC2 instances, put them in various subnets in various AZ's and connect to them via internal IP. I can also join them to the local domain. However, I want to…
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How to create an Amazon AMI with HVM from scratch?

All the instructions I find online start with an existing AMI, but I would like to create an AMI from scratch using HVM instead of PV. Does anyone know the procedure for doing this?
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Difference between AWS Software Subscription and Launching a Custom AMI?

Amazon AWS seems to provide two methods of launching an instance of Ubuntu 12.04 that confuse me, one of them is the Software Marketplace the other method is by launching an AMI on the Ubuntu website All of these comparisons are 12.04 LTS, Micro,…
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Amazon VPC Availability

We are trying to expand our reliability setup using VPC in us-west-1. The 'a' and 'b' AZs work fine, but when I try to create subnets on 'c' it just fails with the message: Value (us-west-1c) for parameter availabilityZone is invalid. Subnets can…
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Setting up a VPN connection to Amazon VPC - routing

I am having some real issues setting up a VPN between out office and AWS VPC. The "tunnels" appear to be up, however I don't know if they are configured correctly. The device I am using is a Netgear VPN Firewall - FVS336GV2 If you see in the…
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How can I know if NAT instance is becoming a bottleneck

I'm running my own NAT instance inside of an AWS VPC. I want to make sure that the NAT instance will not be a bottleneck and to that end would like to set my own expectation for when to scale to a secondary NAT (if ever). I understand that instance…
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Amazon AWS pricing (website/server)

I have got two websites hosted on Amazon AWS and my traffic is anything but splendid, but still I need to keep them up and running. I have two elastic IPs. I am not 100% familiar with what is going on there exactly, but about half a year ago I…
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What is best practice for secure access to AWS, especially RDS?

After some reading (AWS docs, http://stratumsecurity.com/2012/12/03/practical-tactical-cloud-security-ec2/, etc..) I still don't understand how to organize secure & easy access to AWS (especially RDS) from users's laptops. For example, my…
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Amazon Linux LAMP with php 5.5

I installed PHP 5.5 on my Amazon Linux VPS via the instructions here. The CLI is working fine. I also had apache already installed and running via the httpd package. It was running without any issue. I see that there is no mod_php in the list of…
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Bitlocker drive encryption on AWS Windows instance

I'm trying to figure out how best to protect the data of a single Windows Server 2012 instance on AWS and according to "AWS_Securing_Data_at_Rest_with_Encryption.pdf" it says: "Encrypting Amazon EBS volumes attached to Windows instances can be …
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Installing intermediate certificates in ELB

I had a certificate expire today and needed to get one reissued from GoDaddy. In the past, I've had no trouble using the pem encodings they generate with the ELB SSL interface. However, when I try to include the SHA-2 bundle (the pem encoded list…
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