amazon-ec2

SQL Server Replication between availability zones on EC2

I was curious if anyone has had any experience doing this and what the approach and results were. We're currently investigating replication between availability zones to maximize uptime. Has anyone done this with success? Any guidelines or potential problems you could share with the community? ...

Kernel panic - Creating own AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

I have created own AMI and registered it on Amazon EC2. But while AMI startup I receive following error: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1) The image is running locally without any problems. fstab contains: proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /...

JVM tuning on Amazon EC2

We will be deploying a production application to Amazon EC2 very shortly. Initially, we'll just be using a "small" instance, but have plans to scale up not long afterwards. My question is, has any investigation been done on JVM tuning for the EC2 environment? Are there any specific changes that we should make to our JVM parameters to ...

EC2 Instance Available Bandwidth?

Is there any way to determine what should be your available bandwidth on EC2? Documentation seems to indicate that it should be based on your instance size, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding any specific numbers. ...

Memcached Latency in Amazon EC2

Hi, I am planning to use Amazon EC2 host only for MemCache.My web application ll be residing on shared hosted server and will be communicating to Ec2 for querying Memcache. How would be the performance of this setup. Regards, Mugil. ...

AWS Amazon EC2 - password-less SSH login for non-root users using PEM keypairs

We've got a couple of clusters running on AWS (HAProxy/Solr, PGPool/PostgreSQL) and we've setup scripts to allow new slave instances to be auto-included into the clusters by updating their IPs to config files held on S3, then SSHing to the master instance to kick them to download the revised config and restart the service. It's all worki...

Help me copy data over the Amazon's EC2 and run a script.

I am a novice as far as using cloud computing but I get the concept and am pretty good at following instructions. I'd like to do some simulations on my data and each step takes several minutes. Given the hierarchy in my data, it takes several hours for each set. I'd like to speed this up by running it on Amazon's EC2 cloud. After readin...

Logs from instances created by Autoscaling(AWS)

I have an instance created with autoscaling enabled in Amazon web services, according to the Webload instances are created and terminated automatically. How do i get the logs from the instances that are created automatically. ...

Set up Wordpress on the Amazon Cloud Computing

Dear All, I wish to set up wordpress on the Amazon Cloud Computing with Ubuntu 64 bit. And I have got error as below: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 759 Please advise. Best regards, LeeJava ...

cloud portability

may i know how portability is gae application. let say i have an application that using comet feature, task queue..etc and not using bigtable and i want to deploy on vmware/amazon will it run? ...

In Amazon EC2, how do I make it run a python script when I "clone" that instance?

Suppose I have a script in /home/myuser/go.py How do I run that script, when a new instance is booted? (I'm used to using the point-and-click control panel Amazon has...) ...

How can I use Hive on top of Amazon Elastic Mapreduce to process data in Amazon Simple DB?

I have a lot of data in an Amazon Simple DB Domain. I want to start Hive on Elastic Map Reduce (on top of hadoop) and somehow, either import data from simpledb or, connect to simpledb and run hiveql queries on it. I have having issues importing the data. Any pointers? ...

How to run multiple macro instances using Remote Dekstop Connection and Amazon AWS EC2

I am trying to to run multiple Remote Desktop connection instances with Amazon's AWS EC2 and keep a macro file running on each instance via Macro Express (installed separately on each node), but each time I minimize an instance, the the mouse movement of that macro freezes and the process is suspended. Since these macros that I am runni...

How do I resize an Amazon EBS backed volume programmatically in an EC2 running Windows?

Looks like the only way to resize an Amazon EBS volume is to take snapshot, dismount, create a larger volume from the snapshot, mount the latter. Now my program is running on a Windows EC2 instance and sees that it's out of disk space. How can the program resize the EBS volume the root partition resides on? ...

Amazon EC2 Cloud instance 500 - Internal server error

While deploying my application built on ASP pages over Amazon EC2 Cloud instance. Iam getting " 500 - Internal server error " for all my ASP pages hosted. Any idea on what would be the settings need to be done to overcome this error. my EC2 instance uses IIS7. my page is using XMLDOC object to extract the connection string from an we...

Using public Amazon Machine Image.

Hi Guys, I am using Amazon EC2 service in my application, to create an instance of AMI I have to pass 'RunInstancesRequest' as parameter for this I need Access Key,AMI Id, Secret Access Key, Security Group etc..but I dnt have any AMI any Idea howw can I create an Instance of any Public AMI, I need to test my Application Will really app...

What's the best way to move everything off of system folder on to s3?

Exploring around S3's UI, it seems they only enjoy file uploads from my local box. Is there a way to push the files directly from my production server to an s3 account? ...

When I upload my CodeIgniter System to my Amazon EC2, why are all of my permissions messed up?

For some weird reason, my "system" folder has permissions of "000" when I upload it. This totally breaks CodeIgniter as I get all sorts of errors: Message: CI_Config::include(/[mysite]/system/application/config/assetlibpro.php) [ci-config.include]: failed to open stream: Permission denied ...

EC2 Java SDK - User data script

Hi, I'm looking for a way to attach a user data script to an EC2 RunRequest in the Java SDK (the equivalent of ec2-run-instances ami-1234567 -f startup-script.zip for the command line tool). Several things I've read indicate that anything user data string with "#! " will execute, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is this even pos...

How to rsync to all Amazon EC2 servers?

I have a Scalr EC2 cluster, and want an easy way to synchronize files across all instances. For example, I have a bunch of files in /var/www on one instance, I want to be able to identify all of the other hosts, and then rsync to each of those hosts to update their files. ls /etc/aws/hosts/app/ returns the IP addresses of all of t...