I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device (I did not know the difference between it and EBS before launching it). I would like to stop it but I can not do it with the command ec2-stop-instances, the output is: Client.UnsupportedOperation: The instance 'i-XXXXXXXX' does not have an 'ebs' root device type and ca...
I was reading and hearing some stuff about cloud computing and map-reduce techniques lately. I am thinking of playing around with some algorithms to get practical experience in that field and see what is possible right now. Here is what I want to do: I would like to use some public cloud platform (e.g. Google App Engine, Google Map Redu...
I'm considering using Amazon EC2 for a web app with a SQL Server back end. Amazon charges extra for running an AMI with SQL Server pre-installed. I already own a copy of SQL Server Enterprise Edition. Is there anything stopping me from getting a standard Windows AMI and installing SQL Server on that? Taking it one step further, what ...
If you are handling all your own licensing(working under a BizSpark license), is it possible run Windows on an EC2 instance marked for Linux/Unix? I am considering migrating a dedicated server I have to EC2 but was not able to find guidance on this. I have been told that you get complete control over the instance to install whatever ...
I'm about to go to Pycon, and while I have my hosting at Webfaction one of the tutorials (JKM) asks for students to have AWS instances. I've been trying to figure out what some minimum charge examples might look like? I'll have a lamp server with Django and a requisite amount of storage but next to no traffic. Anyone have some guidance...
I have a Grails app called abc, which when I access locally I get at through http://localhost:port/abc I have deployed my app up on Amazon EC2 with an elastic IP address which I can get at directly as http://1.2.3.4/abc I have a domain name of xyz.com and I have pointed that at my elastic IP, so now I can go to http://xyz.com htt...
It is the first time I have ever launched live a website (with Grails web framework under Amazon EC2 platform and Cloud Foundry) and I realized quickly that I am not ready for monitoring and maintening correctly my application in production mode (fortunately the website is accessible to a very limited number of users) . The issues I hav...
I just created an MediaWiki website at Amazon EC2 using Turnkey's MediaWiki package (see http://www.turnkeylinux.org/mediawiki) and for performance and resilience I would like to run the same MediaWiki content from two different EC2 locations (US and EU). Is that possible? Maybe using and EBS volume? (see http://www.turnkeylinux.org/doc...
Hi, I've been looking for an AMI that has basically an updated version of ruby gems, thin and nginx and mysql installed. EC2onRails seems to be left alone now since Paul decided to leave the project. If you were to deploy your Rails App in the cloud, what are your benchmarks? Recommendations? ...
How does one enable (or perhaps I need to install) GD when my phpinfo() output in "Configure Command" says; --without-gd ? I also have nothing in my phpinfo() output "Core" that lists "gd" PHP Version 5.2.4 on AWS. Thanks! ...
I am migrating my Java,Tomcat, Mysql server to AWS EC2. I have already attached EBS volume for storing MySql data. In my web application people may upload images. So I should persist them. There are 2 alternatives in my mind: Save uploaded images to EBS volume. Use the S3 service. The followings are my notes, please be skeptic abou...
Much has been written about deploying data crunching applications on EC2/S3, but I would like to know, what is the typical workflow for developing such applications? Lets say I have a 1 TB of time series data to begin with and I have managed to store this on S3. How would I write applications and do interactive data analysis to build m...
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I'm switching over to EC2 and obviously it's easiest to manage instances through a command line rather than some crappy web interface, but I work on a PC and have everything set up in Windows. What is the best way to work with dev server instances? Putty? Is there an alternative? What do you guys use? Thanks! ...
I know there are tools to manage your EC2 environment. I currently use the Eclipse Plugin and the iPhone app iAWSManager. What i'm looking for is a management service that allows you to create multiple users with roles and privileges. I have clients that sign up for EC2 but need help setting up and managing everything. At the very least ...
I am trying to install my ASP.NET 3.5 website on EC2 windows instance and i get this error although i am running it under the admin user: "You do not have sufficient privileges to complete this installation for all users of the machine. Log on as administrator and then retry this installation." ...
I am working on a Rails app that allows you to create a configuration and then launch a server at EC2 with this configuration. So far I've been using cucumber for BDD and was very happy with that. However, now I want to pick a configuration and actually launch the server. Due to cost and performance issues I don't want to actually launch...
I set up an ec2 instance. In the security group, I opened up SSH 'tcp' port 80 for 0.0.0.0/0 (all open for testing purposes). I associated the instance with a private key. I downloaded the key and passed it while ssh-ing, but the RSA isn't authenticating. Any ideas? ssh -i mykey.pem [email protected] The authenticity of hos...
Hi people! Sorry for my confusion - I have tried looking for tutorials explaining these concepts, but haven't found anything that made sense. I am moving my hosting from mediatemple to ec2 and I understand the general idea of how DNS works, but I'm confused as to how the internals of nameservers / zone files work and what they do. How ...
I want to process the logs from my web server as it comes in using Hadoop (Amazon Elastic mapreduce). I googled for help but nothing useful. I would like to know if this can be done or is there any alternative way to do this. ...