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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 To Set Up GUI On Amazon EC2 Ubuntu server

I'm using an amazon Ubuntu EC2 instance which is only has a command line interface. I want to setup UI for that server to access using remote desktop tools. Is there any way to apply GUI to the EC2 instance?
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Using python Logging with AWS Lambda

As the AWS documentation suggests: import logging logger = logging.getLogger() logger.setLevel(logging.INFO) def my_logging_handler(event, context): logger.info('got event{}'.format(event)) logger.error('something went wrong') Now I…
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AWS S3: how do I see how much disk space is using

I have AWS account. I'm using S3 to store backups from different servers. The question is there any information in the AWS console about how much disk space is in use in my S3 cloud?
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AWS S3 copy files and folders between two buckets

I have been on the lookout for a tool to help me copy content of an AWS S3 bucket into a second AWS S3 bucket without downloading the content first to the local file system. I have tried to use the AWS S3 console copy option but that resulted in…
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Append data to an S3 object

Let's say that I have a machine that I want to be able to write to a certain log file stored on an S3 bucket. So, the machine needs to have writing abilities to that bucket, but, I don't want it to have the ability to overwrite or delete any files…
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How do you set a default root object for subdirectories for a statically hosted website on Cloudfront?

How do you set a default root object for subdirectories on a statically hosted website on Cloudfront? Specifically, I'd like www.example.com/subdir/index.html to be served whenever the user asks for www.example.com/subdir. Note, this is for…
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Can you attach Amazon EBS to multiple instances?

We currently use multiple webservers accessing one mysql server and fileserver. Looking at moving to the cloud, can I use this same setup and attach the EBS to multiple machine instances or what's another solution?
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Possible reasons for timeout when trying to access EC2 instance

I cannot SSH into my instance - Operation timed out. What could be the reasons why, and what can I do to resolve it? Rebooting normally takes a long time to take effect, and might just makes things worst UPDATE: It is not about permissions - i can…
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Add EBS to Ubuntu EC2 Instance

I'm having problem connecting EBS volume to my Ubuntu EC2 Instance. Here's what I did: From the Amazon AWS Console, I created a EBS 150GB volume and attached it to an Ubuntu 11.10 EC2 instance. Under the EBS volume properties, "Attachment" shows:…
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Amazon S3 boto - how to delete folder?

I created a folder in s3 named "test" and I pushed "test_1.jpg", "test_2.jpg" into "test". How can I use boto to delete folder "test"?
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Difference between DynamoDb PutItem vs UpdateItem?

Based on DynamoDb documentation why would anyone use updateItem instead of putItem? PutItem - Writes a single item to a table. If an item with the same primary key exists in the table, the operation replaces the item. For calculating provisioned…
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The AWS Access Key Id does not exist in our records

I created a new Access Key and configured that in the AWS CLI with aws configure. It created the .ini file in ~/.aws/config. When I run aws s3 ls it gives: A client error (InvalidAccessKeyId) occurred when calling the ListBuckets operation: The AWS…
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AWS : The config profile (MyName) could not be found

Every time I want to config something with AWS I get the following error : "The config profile (myname) could not be found" like : aws configure I'm using Python 3.4 and I want to use AWS CLI Keyring to encrypt my credentials..
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How to check whether my user data passing to EC2 instance is working

While creating a new AWS EC2 instance using the EC2 command line API, I passed some user data to the new instance. How can I know whether that user data executed or not?
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Get last modified object from S3 using AWS CLI

I have a use case where I programmatically bring up an EC2 instance, copy an executable file from S3, run it and shut down the instance (done in user-data). I need to get only the last added file from S3. Is there a way to get the last modified file…
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