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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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logging/capturing STDERR/STDOUT on Amazon EC2

I'm looking for a solution that would allow me to automatically capture the STDOUT/STDERR of a process running on Amazon EC2, and send it (remotely) to another server. Sound simple, except: I will be using spot-instances, which means I don't…
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Is it possible to have a spot instance mount a particular EBS volume as its root disk when started?

For example, in a scenario where you have an auto-scaling group of size 1 that launches a spot instance which continually uses the same root EBS volume.
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Same SSL for multiple domains

I have a Godaddy domain that points to aws load balancer with a SSL cert. Now I want to add another domain B to point to the same load balancer. Can I use the same SSL cert or is it associated with the domain name ? Do I have to buy a UCC ssl cert…
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cannot connect to mysql on AWS through ssh tunnel

I'm trying to break down the task of doing AWS debugging on rubymine into smaller chunks. I would like to connect to the mysql server running on AWS. So I did the following: first: Establish an ssh tunnel to forward all localhost requests to port…
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AWS: Forwarding HTTPS to HTTP via ELB

I'm having issues setting up HTTPS on AWS via a load balancer. I've managed to get as far as proxying my standard :80 server, via HTTPS on the load balancer, so requests to https://www.example.com are working. So if AWS can handle HTTPS traffic at…
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How to calculate the size of an AWS RDS instance from a MySQL dump?

We are importing a large historical database into RDS from a mysqldump The gziped sql file was 3GB, the uncompressed sql file is 18GB. We created a 30GB AWS RDS instance and imported the file... the RDS instance ran out of space. We created a 50GB…
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Is it possible to change the EBS size on Elastic Beanstalk?

By default, creating an environment on Elastic Beanstalk spins up EC2 instances with an EBS storage of 8 GiB. Is it possible to change this value and get a bigger EBS storage for every instance?
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Are Elastic Beanstalk's .ebextension commands run only on server setup?

The Elastic Beanstalk documentation says: You can use the commands key to execute commands on the EC2 instance. The commands are processed in alphabetical order by name, and they run before the application and web server are set up and the…
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How to use cygwin to access AWS linux server instance

I am trying to use Cygwin to connect to my Amazon server instance I am new to this Currently i have a USA.pem file located at C:\Users\Vinay\Desktop\Devrath I have installed Cygwin I have used this reference to use cmd prompt with cygwin now i…
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Nginx welcome page returns

I'm running Nginx on an EC2 instance. I have a webpage installed in the default /usr/share/nginx/html dir. I've noticed that, if I make an AMI of that EC2 instance and a new EC2 instance using that AMI, the default Nginx welcome site (i.e…
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EC2 DNS not resolving hostname to internal IP

I already posted this on the AWS forums without success (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=502441). I'm wondering if I'll be more lucky here. We have an internal DNS setup that uses the official AWS EC2 DNS 172.16.0.23 as a…
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Is there any way to 'describe-instances' for another AWS account from awscli?

I've added a role to allow another account to list instances, but there doesn't appear to be any option to choose which account I'm listing instances from. Is there some undocumented option to pass in to choose this foreign account? Edit: The…
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chef-server-webui session not working when access from external IP address

I have installed chef-server on an Ubuntu 12.10 system using the official .deb package for that release. After the installation had finished I run chef-server-ctl test Which reported success, 0 failures. The server - an Amazon EC2 instance - has 1…
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Managing multiple AWS VPCs - becomes a fruit salad of subnets / ec2 instances

We are just starting our AWS presence. We require multiple VPCs, each hosting our own servers or customers' servers. Each VPC has 4 subnets - 2 public, 2 private, each in a different AZ. Each VPC has 7 or more EC2 instances. We manage this…
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How can I whitelist oubound-from-private-subnet traffic to S3 on the NAT instance of an EC2 VPC?

I'm researching privacy-compliant high-security deployment options for AWS VPC. I'm looking for a method of tightening outbound traffic from the private subnets at the NAT instance. For example, how could I limit outbound traffic from behind the…
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