Questions tagged [amazon-ami]

Questions concerning Amazon Machine Images (AMI). An AMI is an image of an instance containing all the information about the configuration and the software that must be installed on the machine during the initialization.

Amazon Machine Images (AMI). An AMI is an image of an instance containing all the information about the configuration and the software that must be installed on the machine during the initialization.

An AMI defines the following parameters:

  • An operating system, an application server, and applications
  • A set of permissions that control which AWS accounts can use the AMI to launch instances
  • A block device mapping that specifies the volumes to attach to the instance when it's launched
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Backing up my Amazon AMI to an external image

I'm trying to create an automatic backup of my Amazon AMIs to another region (automatically, of course). This is possible with the web GUI which Amazon provides, but I couldn't find an API with allows you to do that (I searched both the boto and the…
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Amazon aws snapshots and AMIs

I am new at Amazon services so I need some questions to ask... Before upgrading to a newer instance I created an AMI of the current instance. Can I delete that AMI now after successful upgrading, without damaging the isntance? Also, can I delete my…
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Creating an AMI image on Amazon AWS

I have an EC2 instance configured the way I want it. Tomcat started up, some big >>100MB files loaded into memory waiting for the first request to come in. Request comes in and is handles in 2ms. Easy enough. Now I take an image of this EC2 and…
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Asterisk AMI Atxfer on explicitely bridged channels

I'm trying to complete software which does all call logic via AMI on it's own using Asterisk only as interface to VOIP, SIP/GSM. Almost everything works great, but...: Here is my scenario: - incoming call is forwarded to announcement and then to MOH…
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Generate a limited list of AMI in EC2

While creating an instance in EC2 using JAVA SDK, is it possible to get the user to select an AMI Instance out of a limited list? Is there an API to display a set of AMIs in EC2??
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How do I access data from my personal computer on my AMI instance running RStudio server

I have recently set up RStudio on an AMI ec2 instance using the process generously laid out by Louis Aslet from his website. But in an embarrassing turn of events I can't access the data I need because it resides on my personal computer. I am new…
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Not able to create AWS instance

I have a running micro strategy instance in AWS (Amazon Web Services). I created a snap shot of my running instance, after which I created a AMI using the snap shot. When i tried to create a new instance with the image I was not able to create it. I…
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Registration failure event from AMI

Is it possible to detect the failure of an agent to register with Asterisk via the AMI ? When I try to register with Asterisk 1.4 using an invalid password I don't see any event in the AMI, but see this in the messages log: [2013-10-05 22:05:03]…
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How to find AWS AMI image for EBS backed instance that would let me connect

I use AWS console to look for ebs backed : as below then I use ec2 command line ec2-run-instances ami-23b6534a -k key_hw3 --availability-zone us-east-1a then try to connect to it using cygwin ( i'm on windows ) , below .. usually when I do #ls…
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Installing NGINX (newbie)

I'm trying to install Tengine which is based off of Nginx from their Github page: The page says, "To install Tengine, just follow these three steps: $ ./configure $ make # make install Can someone tell me the actual first step on how to download…
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Connect to EC2 Instance - Bitnami/Django

Im super new to Amazon Cloud, nevermind ec2, I'm following the amazon documentation, which states: In a command line shell, change directories to the location of the private key file that you created when you launched the instance. Use the chmod…
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whirr unable to connect to custom AMI - EC2

Hi I am trying to do a Hadoop deployment on EC2 using whirr. If I use one of the publicly available Ubuntu AMI, my cluster gets deployed and everything runs fine. However, if I use my own custom RHEL AMI, then my launch fails because of ssh. Here is…
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AWS Cluster with Cloudera Manager: Cannot create AMI's

I run AWS cluster with Cloudera Manager. I'd like to create AMI from one of cluster instances. The problem is: creation of AMI is not available for any cluster's instance. What could be the problem?
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Hosting Java Webservice on Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03

I am given an Amazon Linux AMI 2013.03 instance with dns address like this: ec2-22-11-111-105.compute-1.amazonaws.com on which I have to host a java web service. I am connecting to it as ec2-user. I have installed tomcat6 server on it by this…
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Using AMI+BiDir with jacorb

Does it possible to use simultaneously AMI and BiDir features with jacorb? Both work for me, but would not work together. Examples, coming with jacorb demonstrates either BiDir or AMI. The error that I see is following: SEVERE: Unexpected…
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