amazon-ec2

how to upload files and manage cpanel at EC2 ?

hi , I am planning to implement my social networking site on EC2, at normal hosting server we get interface to access cpanel, phpmyadmin, uploading php files, and other things, can we get for ec2, if amazon is not providing can u pls let me know which one is best. waiting for ur response. ...

how to create data base in Amazon EC2

Hi , I was created an account in Ec2 , But i can't understand how to upload file in ec2 server, how to create ftp account for transfer the files and how to create Mysql Data base in ec2. any one knows, Please Share with me... I need your help.. Regards Siva ...

Do you have links to any tutorials on setting up MVC on Amazon EC2?

Please share links to tutorials on how to set up and run ASP.NET MVC on an Amazon EC2 virtual machine. I know that it's possible, but I'd like to follow behind someone else that's already set it up and has it running. It'd be great to know of a EC2 bundle that already has everything set up as well. ...

How to use multiple AWS Accounts from the command line?

Howdy, I've got two different apps that I am hosting (well the second one is about to go up) on Amazon EC2. How can I work with both accounts at the command line (Mac OS X) but keep the EC2 keys & certificates separate? Do I need to change my environment variables before each ec2-* command? Would using an alias and having it to the ...

EC2 automation tools / strategies?

What tools or strategies are you using for automation of EC2 activities? I need to be able to bring up a number of EC2 instances, provision various software to it (primarily Python packages), interact with S3 (primarily download data), and run various jobs. I'll be doing this both on-demand and on a scheduled basis. I'm trying to decid...

Can we set easy-to-remember hostnames for EC2 instances?

I'm running a couple of standard Fedora instances on EC2. I feel the public hostnames of the instances assigned by Amazon are too weird and hard to remember. I'd like to change them to something short (like red/blue/green/etc). Is there any draw back in doing this? And how do I set it up such that it persists after reboots? Thanks. ...

What ec2 image (ami) do you recommend for working with java 5, jboss, mysql, apache?

What ec2 image (ami) do you recommend for working with java 5, jboss, mysql, apache? ...

How stable are ec2 machines?

In Amazon ec2, how frequently will an instance of a running machine crash? Has anyone experienced this? ...

Using Amazon's EBS for MySQL hot backup

What are your experiences using Amazons EBS snapshot features for MySql hot backups. I have a database running a batch processing job in ec2. I backup with EBS snapshot. So far the backups looks consistent. But I am afraid they "will stop being consistent as soon as I stop checking" (Uncertainty principle). What are your experiences wi...

In Amazon EC2, how do I copy a EBS volume to another user?

I have created an amazon EBS volume using my amazon credentials. My customer gave me his customer credentials so that I create for him an EC2 machinge with the disk I created attached, how do I do that? I'm using the web console, if it matters ================== Let me add that when I do create volume in my customer's account and put ...

How do the amazon web services work?

What information have you been able to gather regarding how do the amazon web services work? What hardware do they use What web server What Operating System What storage for AWS What virtualization software for EC2/EBS What software for they distributed firewall for EC2 Physical location of their data centers. I like their services v...

Find out the instance id from within an ec2 machine

How can I find out, from within an ec2 machine (user root) what is my instance id? ...

What happens when I reboot an EC2 instance?

When I reboot an EC2 instance, do I get the initial image again, or is the state of the hard disk before the reboot kept? And what happens with billing, does the hour start again, or do I continue with the fraction of the hour I was in when I rebooted? ...

ec2: kill all my instances from the command line

How can I kill all my instances from the command line. Is there a command for this or must I script it? ...

Is there a business proven cloud store / Key=>Value Database? (Open Source)

I have been looking for cloud computing / storage solutions for a long time (inspired by the Google Bigtable). But I can't find a easy-to-use, business-ready solution. I'm searching a simple, fault tolerant, distributed Key=>Value DB like SimpleDB from Amazon. I've seen things like: The CouchDB Project : Simple and distributed, faul...

What's the best method for passing AWS credentials as user data to an EC2 instance?

I have a job processing architecture based on AWS that requires EC2 instances query S3 and SQS. In order for running instances to have access to the API the credentials are sent as user data (-f) in the form of a base64 encoded shell script. For example: $ cat ec2.sh ... export AWS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER='1111-1111-1111' export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_...

EBS for storing databases vs. website files

I spent the day experimenting with AWS for the first time. I've got an EC2 instance running and I mounted an Elastic Block Store (EBS) to keep the MySQL databases. Does it make sense to also put my web application files on the EBS, or should I just deploy them to the normal EC2 file system? ...

How do I migrate my website, mySQL, php pages, files, settings etc to Amazon EC2?

Hi I am completely new to EC2 and new to server admin and have been working on a windows 2003 server with our current web application made with PHP pages, mySQL database, and serving image files from a single standalone windows 2003 server. I would like to know how to go about 'packing up' our server and installing it as an image on Am...

Java Web Starter AMI

I'm trying to follow the tutorial on http://ttlnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-up-amazon-ami-with-java-and.html but can't find the Java Web Starter AMI (ami-1c54b075) when searcing for AMI in the AWS console. Anyone now why this could be? It seems to be one of the most popular AMIs as well (see infobox on the right side), so seems stra...

Can subversion be hosted on Amazon's hosted cloud service?

Can subversion be hosted on Amazon's hosted cloud service? ...