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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How to use an Amazon EBS volume to serve web content using Apache
How do you actually USE an Amazon EBS volume?
I've created an EC2 instance with an Apache web server and PHP but, as storage in EC2 is ephemeral, I've attached an EBS volume to it. The volume has been mounted and I have been able to upload a 'hello…
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Packer: what's the difference between tags and snapshot_tags builder options?
From the documentation, they doing the same (https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html#snapshot_tags)
Am I missing something?
In which case should I use snapshot_tags instead of tags?
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Auto shutdown a scheduled linux machine
I want to schedule a (AWS) linux machine to start, run a program, and then shut itself down (to keep costs at a minimum).
I can put
mycommand; shutdown
in the /etc/rc.local file. But then I can't get into the machine if I ever need to make a…
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AWS t2.micro instance
I have one service running on my t2.micro instance. How can i confirm if there is any bandwidth and storage limit or not.
Attached is that status screen shot of it.
Please guide me on this.
Thanks
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How to stop Amazon EBS charge
I created some EBS volumes on some Linux instances. Then I terminated the instances but the volumes were still there (I forgot to check the Delete on Termination setting).
When I went to billing I saw that I was charged for the IOPS of those EBS…
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How to create an encrypted file on encrypted EBS volume (AWS) attached to an AWS EC2 instance?
I am using amazon aws. I created one ebs volume with encryption with the default key. then I attached it to the ec2 instance and mounted the ebs volume on the ec2 instance folder. Now I created a file inside the mount folder (i.e encrypted ebs…
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What is cost of EBS for 200GB max volume size or data stored
If I create AWS EBS with 200GB max volume with data of 50 GB, so what will be costing criteria total max-size i.e 200 GB or for data stored like 50GB.
I am trying to understand for EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) Volumes.
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Number of maximum disk on EC2
I am looking for a answer for a question over Amazon EC2.
As we can add multiple EBS which can be of 1TB in size, so how many of them i can add on a single EC2 instance?
Couldn't find the answer on goolge if there is someone who've experienced it or…
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I would like to backup my website locally from AWS
I had a dev team code my website and upload it to AWS some time ago. The website has been working, but I now would like to retire it (with a small tear in my eye). Unfortunately the dev team is not around anymore. A lot of work was involved, and for…
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Is the Amazon EC2 home folder automatically an EBS?
I recently set up a new EC2 instance (t2.small) and it seems to have created an EBS to go with it. I did a quick stop start and the contents of the home folder seem to have remained intact.
Is it safe to assume that the home was automatically setup…
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Why do I need to also share the encryption key with the other account when sharing an encrypted snapshot?
In the AWS docs it says that
When you share an encrypted snapshot, you must also share the customer
managed key used to encrypt the snapshot.
but why is that necessary? Why does the receiving account need the encryption key when I share with it an…
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How can I find list of AWS EBS volumes in my account that have size >=200GIB using AWS CLI?
I am executing the command below in AWS CLI to find volumes that have size>=200GIB but the command returns nothing. But from the AWS console I can see that few volumes have a size >=200GiB
aws ec2 describe-volumes --filter "Name=size,Values=…
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How to fetch files from a folder in Amazon EBS?
How to access a folder and get its files from Amazon EBS through a .NET Core application where I only know the path to the folder?
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Incremental backup using snapshot in Amazon web services
I am having issue in creating the incremental backup using snapshot.
Last week i took the backup of the drive which is 30Gb of size using the snapshot,and yesterday i have added 5 more Gb of data to the same drive and took another backup as a second…
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Need extensible storage for EC2 ! Alternatives of EFS (Elastic File System) on AWS ?
As EFS is not in All regions.. What are other options if I need an extensible storage which can be mounted on EC2 ?
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