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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud service that offers IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions. Only questions about programming in relation to AWS are on-topic. General server help can be obtained at https://serverfault.com. The AWS tag is rarely used alone and will usually be used with other tags to more clearly define the topic of the question.

If you need help setting up AWS resources, ask those questions on Server Fault.

AWS is a cloud service that offers IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service).

SDKs to access and manage Amazon Web Services are provided in a multitude of programming languages, including PHP, Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, and more. The services are also accessible through REST and SOAP APIs, a command-line interface, and a web console.

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How do you pass custom environment variable on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (AWS EBS)?

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk blurb says: Elastic Beanstalk lets you "open the hood" and retain full control ... even pass environment variables through the Elastic Beanstalk console. http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ How to pass other…
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Best way to move messages off DLQ in Amazon SQS?

What is the best practice to move messages from a dead letter queue back to the original queue in Amazon SQS? Would it be Get message from DLQ Write message to queue Delete message from DLQ Or is there a simpler way? Also, will AWS eventually…
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Amazon products API - Looking for basic overview and information

After using the ebay API recently, I was expecting it to be as simple to request info from Amazon, but it seems not... There does not seem to be a good webpage which explains the basics. For starters, what is the service called? The old name has…
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AWS Difference between a snapshot and AMI

So I am having trouble working out what, specifically is the difference between these two. As I understand it, a snapshot is simply a backup of the disk drive, whereas the AMI is a backup of the entire system (or instance I should say), but isn't…
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Terraform: correct way to attach AWS managed policies to a role?

I want to attach one of the pre-existing AWS managed roles to a policy, here's my current code: resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "sto-readonly-role-policy-attach" { role = "${aws_iam_role.sto-test-role.name}" policy_arn =…
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AWS lambda api gateway error "Malformed Lambda proxy response"

I am trying to set up a hello world example with AWS lambda and serving it through api gateway. I clicked the "Create a Lambda Function", which set up the api gatway and selected the Blank Function option. I added the lambda function found on AWS…
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Getting json body in aws Lambda via API gateway

I'm currently using NodeJS to build a bot on AWS lambda via AWS Api Gateway and I'm running into an issue with POST requests and JSON data. My api uses 'Use Lambda Proxy integration' and even when I test the proxy sending a content-type of…
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getting message: forbidden reply from AWS API gateway

I am trying to create a lambda service on AWS and have it accessed from outside via the API gateway with no authentication or restriction required. To make things easy I set the gateway for now to be a Mock. On the Get method of the API, the…
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SQS vs RabbitMQ

I need to create a queue for processing. The queue itself is relatively low-volume. There might be about 1,000 writes to it per hour. The execution of each task might take about a minute each, and are processed almost as soon as the item is added to…
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Difference between AWS Elastic Container Service's (ECS) ExecutionRole and TaskRole

I'm using AWS's CloudFormation, and I recently spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why the role I had created and attached policies to was not enabling my ECS task to send a message to a Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue. I realized that…
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AWS CLI S3 A client error (403) occurred when calling the HeadObject operation: Forbidden

I'm trying to setup a Amazon Linux AMI(ami-f0091d91) and have a script that runs a copy command to copy from a S3 bucket. aws --debug s3 cp s3://aws-codedeploy-us-west-2/latest/codedeploy-agent.noarch.rpm . This script works perfectly on my local…
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How to use AWS S3 CLI to dump files to stdout in BASH?

I'm starting a bash script which will take a path in S3 (as specified to the ls command) and dump the contents of all of the file objects to stdout. Essentially I'd like to replicate cat /path/to/files/* except for S3, e.g. s3cat…
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Kubernetes: how to set VolumeMount user group and file permissions

I'm running a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using kops. I've mounted an EBS volume onto a container and it is visible from my application but it's read only because my application does not run as root. How can I mount a PersistentVolumeClaim as a user…
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How to check if a specified key exists in a given S3 bucket using Java

I would like to check if a key exists in a given bucket using Java. I looked at the API but there aren't any methods that are useful. I tried to use getObject but it threw an exception.
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AWS: What does 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0 mean?

In security group, every inbound port I add, two rules are added, one for 0.0.0.0/0, the other ::/0. What do they each mean?
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