You need to be comfortable with running an ec2 instance. Obviously you need an instance to make an image from, and I will assume this is an Ubuntu one similar to my ubuntu server tips. You need to be set up with S3, and have a backup plan and a bucket for AMIs beforehand. Check ...
An instance can be launched or stopped at any point of time. Amazon EC2 is free for the first one year when you use micro instance only. While launching EC2 Instance you have an option to choose the availability zones / physical location. Ec2 also has EBS – Elastic block storage for per...
In this post I’m going to show what could be considered a “hello world” of Ansible + AWS, using Ansible to launch an EC2 instance. Aside from the time required to set up an AWS account and install Ansible, you should be able to get your EC2 instance running in 20 minutes or less...
Before you can create an Auto Scaling group using a launch template, you must create a launch template that includes the parameters required to launch an EC2 instance, such as the ID of the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and an instance type. We strongly recommend that you do ...
Creating an EC2 Instance Once you are verified and logged in, proceed to the EC2 service in theAWS Management Consoleand from theEC2 Dashboardclick theLaunch Instancebutton. Follow the steps and launch the instance. If you did not create or use an existing Security Group, the one that gets...
One way to get a fast disk cache on an EC2 instance is to attach the local instance stores. You can use a RAID-0 setup to use multiple instance stores as a single large disk cache. This article describes the steps to RAID multiple EC2 instance stores for disk cache. If your EC2 ...
You know how toStart an EC2 Instance You have aAWS Security Groupthat allows the** TCP port 3389** for** RDP(Remote Desktop Protocol)** You are on aWindowsdesktop OS First off, you’re going to want to start a Windows instance of your choice via theAWS Management Console.As soon as...
For information about how to create a security group, see Create a security group for your Amazon EC2 instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. Type: HTTP Protocol: TCP Port range: 80 Source: Anywhere (0.0.0.0/0) Step 1: Create the cluster Create a cluster that uses the default VPC. ...
As when backing up an EBS volume, you also usually need to stop your EC2 instance before creating a new AMI. There are exceptions to this rule; for example, when you use a file system such as XFS, which can be “frozen” in order to create backups, you do not need to stop the ...
Primary Usernames for EC2 Instances: I wish someone told me this when I first started playing with AWS. You’ll find these type of treasures hidden in Q&A threads, but not in any easy to understand guide in AWS documentation. Depending on the type of EC2 instance you have setup, below ...