Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance.
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Hot to get Gradle running with elastic bamboo agent?
I am struggling a little bit to get Gradle running with Elastic Bamboo. I would install Gradle on our mounted EBS-Snapshot. Then take a new one and afterwards add this as Executable capability to the elastic image config. Is this enough? Since…
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AWS : Splitting software & data in different volumes
AWS recommends keeping data & OS on separate EBS volumes. I have a webserver running on EC2 with an EBS volume. On a bare VM, I install the following:
- webserver, wsgi, pip & related software/config (some in /etc some in /home/)
- server…
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Increase storage on running EC2 using EBS
I have a instance running on EC2 with default storage of 8GB. I also have mysql running on that instance which is taking most of the storage on the instance.
I have already created another volume mounted on /vol1
Is there a way the when mysql run…
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How to transfer files from iPhone to EC2 instance or EBS?
I am trying to create an iOS app, which will transfer the files from an iPhone to a server, process them there, and return the result to the app instantly.
I have noticed that AWS offers an SDK to transfer files from iOS app to S3, but not to EC2…
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Getting higher number of aws snapshot than the snapshots I've in my AWS account
When I try to do :
conn = boto.connect_ec2(access_key = "xxxxxxx", access_secret = "yyyyyy")
snapshots = conn.get_all_snapshots()
I get different number of snapshots(more than snapshots I see on console)
but when try to execute
snapshots =…
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What happens with data when I stop EBS backed instances
What happens with data in Ephemeral storage when I stop EBS backed instances?
AWS makes a snapshot and store it in EBS - not losing data
AWS makes a snapshot and store it in S3 - not losing data
AWS makes a snapshot and store it in EBS - losing…
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Can I migrate between EC2 instance types using the same EBS volume to boot off of?
I have a scheme for a cheap minecraft server using t2 instances. If I want to play with just a few friends, I will use t2.small. If I want to play with a lot of friends I will detach the volume, attach it to a t2.medium and play on that.
From…
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Expand Amazon ebs volume
I have Ubuntu ec2 instance. I have attached EBS volume which is restored from snapshot.
Volume size is 100GB and there is partition of 30GB containing data and 70GB blank space. EBS volume has x86 boot sector(ntfs) file system. Now I want to expand…
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Which one is better, one 300GB EBS or three 100GB EBS?
When launching a new EC2 instance with EBS (especially the new C4 instance), which one is better? Assuming I need to provision 300 GB total.
1 single 300 GB EBS storage to get 900 IOPS (General Purpose SSD) or
3 EBS storage with 100 GB each and get…
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EC2: How to tell if disk volume is instance store or EBS?
I have a number of volumes (same size) attached to a Windows EC2 instance in Amazon AWS.
One of them is told to be an instance store, the rest are EBS.
How do I tell which one is the instance store? They all look the same in Device Manager - "XENSRC…
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Amazon EC2 unexpected billing amount
I´m quite new with Amazon Web Services. Some months ago, I created a m3.medium instance on demand. According to AWS EC2 prices, this instance is 0.077$/hour. This means 55,44$/month (november). However, I got a billing of 74.76$ (91.12$ with…
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How to get PHP site live on amazon EC2 instance?
I have already installed ubuntu14, lamp, phpmyadmin on the EC2 instance. The site is running fine with the public dsn:
http://ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
Now I need to make it live for original domain like…
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Return only images ID's from ec2-describe-images command
As part of a script, I am trying to find the image ID's of already made images. When I run this command for instance:
ec2-describe-images --filter "description=$instance_ID" -O $O -W $W
It returns all information on the resulting images.
IMAGE…
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Attach EBS volume to EC2 instance when cloudwatch alarm triggers
I have a business case when an EC2 instance runs out of space, we need to spawn new EBS volume, attach it to EC2 instance and format it.
I have created one cron job which keeps sending disk usage to cloud watch and trying to create one alarm this…
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Can an existing device-name be given to a new EBS volume being attached to an Amazon EC2 instance?
Let's say there is a single disk Disk 0 at an Amazon EC2 instance Instance1 with the corresponding EBS volume having the device-name /dev/sd1. Let's say this disk maps to C-drive on the VM.
Now can we create a new EBS volume attach it to Instance1…
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