amazon-ec2

Selenium2 with EC2 on Windows Platform

Hi all, This is the first post on this community. I couldn't find a similar post, so thought of posting here. I'm a newbie to Selenium2 and EC2. I successfully ran few selenium tests in Windows NT 5.1. I'm supposed to perform the same steps in EC2 (it's on linux). I have all the necessary details connecting to EC2. the official settin...

Can EC2 20 instance limit be bypassed by use of multiple accounts?

Just a simple question, say I on a research team with 10 members and we want to deploy a project that will require on-demand leasing of 200 EC2 instances. Can we virtually bypass the 20 instances limit by creating 10 AWS accounts (one each) and then lease on demand up to 200 instances? ...

Cannot get a Cron event to fire on my Linux server.

I have a Amazon EC2 Linux micro instance server that I need to fire an hourly process on. I have chosen to use crontab and cannot get it to fire. I placed a *.sh file in the /etc/cron.hourly If I run $ sh /etc/cron.hourly/notify.sh the script behaves as expected. I have checked to see if the cron service is running and it is. I have...

EC2 VPC size limit

it looks like the size of the virtual private cloud is 24 hosts - is that correct? ...

Alternatives to Amazon VPC

I currently have 20 Windows VMs that are running on Amazon EC2. There are LOTS of people in the company that need ad-hoc RDP access to each one of these boxes. Occassionally I also run Unix instances, which again tend to have a lot of ad-hoc SSH access from a large number of users. So now I have a problem... When these boxes run within ...

Transfer files between Amazon EC2 and S3

I have log files generated by my application running on EC2. I want to first upload the log file to a bucket in S3. I then run a map reduce job and I want to then download the output file back to EC2. What is the best way for me to upload and download files from EC2 and S3? Is it possible to do automate the process using Shell script o...

How to deploy a JEE application in the Amazon cloud?

Here's the thing: I need to take a certain JEE webapp and deploy it to Amazon EC2 (which I will need to setup first) starting next month (using the http://aws.amazon.com/free/faqs/ AWS Free Tier Usage - hope it supports Tomcat + MySQL/PostgreSQL). The problem: I have never ever deployed a JEE app (not even a normal one on a dedicated hos...

How to start Apache on EC2

Hi, I'm an absolute newbie to EC2. My goal is to run a php-mysql-website on EC2. I've just setup a new instance based on this ami It seems that apache isn't running? How do I start apache? Is there a general tutorial on how to start EC2 as a web server? Thanks! ...

ec2: elb-create-lb-listeners fails

Has anyone gotten amazon's elastic load balancing command: elb-create-lb-listeners to work? Is this the right site for ec2 questions: would serverfault be better? Amazon's forums seem slow... I get: PROMPT:~ acct$ elb-create-lb-listeners <MYLBNAME> --listener "protocol=http,lb-port=80,instance-port=80" Unable to find a $JAVA_HOME at "...

Amazon EC2 multiple private IP addresses per instance

I have a scenario where an application requires multiple private IP addresses but does not require the resources of multiple instances. In this case, I would like to run multiple jboss instances on the same EC2 instance without port mangling. I've seem threads up to 2009 that stated this is not possible, checking if this has changed....

Block outbound traffic on EC2

Is ther a way to configure EC2 Security Groups so that they do not allow specific types of outbound connectivity (such as making HTTP requests to the public internet)? ...

Engine_Exception with message Method "createThumb" not supported on Amazon EC2

Hi, createThumb() method working with localhost on apache server.But, the same function not working with Amazon EC2. Which is showing an error like, exception 'Engine_Exception' with message 'Method "createThumb" not supported' in /var/www/justrides/application/modules/Core/Api/Abstract.php:46 GD Library enabled in the server. Any sugg...

Deploying Projects on EC2 vs. Windows Azure

I've been working with Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services EC2 for a good many months now (almost getting to the years range) and I've seen something over and over that seems troubling. When I deploy a .NET build into Windows Azure into a web role (or service role) it takes usually 6-15 minute for it to startup. In AWS's EC2 it takes...

Amazon VPC testing

I sell a product that runs on Amazon EC2. A company now wants to purchase and install it within their perimeter... This also implies the use of a VPN connection to the EC2 datacenter. I want to test my product using Amazon VPN (VPC) before handing over the code. Must I change my code to make it work across VPC? If I run on Windows, the...

error in javax.xml.bind .messages

When I try to use error in javax.xml.bind .messages in android app it give error...............can't find resource for javax.xml.bind .messages ,bundle key en_us ...

Are services like AWS secure enough for an organization that is highly responsible for it's clients privacy?

Okay, so we have to store our clients` private medical records online and also the web site will have a lot of requests, so we have to use some scaling solutions. We can have our own share of a datacenter and run something like Zend Server Cluster Manager on it, but services like Amazon EC2 look a lot easier to manage, and they are incre...

"Best" Amazon EC2 EMI for CentOS with EBS storage?

Hi there, Are there any "good", clean, reliable and trustworthy "out-of-the-box" Amazon EC2 AMI images for CentOS that uses EBS storage by default (instead of instance storage)? The RightScale AMIs seem pretty popular but they are only with instance storage. I can't find any information or "Top AMIs" lists.. Thanks a lot in advance. ...

Starting mysql in new EC2 instance throws "can't connect through socket" error

I have an ec2 instance, but when i run mysql, it gives me this error ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) Similarly, when i run /etc/init.d/mysql start Oct 31 11:29:16 domU-12-31-38-00-A8-62 /etc/init.d/mysql[5263]: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server throu...

how amazon ec2 ,php5,android ?

i want to use amazon ec2 php library to run on android ? ...