Setting up an AWS instance with ClusterCS is very easy and straightforward only requiring two steps. STEP 1: Deploying an AWS instance and obtaining the SSH KEY STEP 2: Run the setup process on Cluster CS with the AWS credentials obtained in Step 1 STEP 1: DEPLOYING AN EC2 INSTANCE a...
Most AWS resources are billed in hours, which provides good flexibility. For example, taking the EC2 instance we just created, there are two ways to put it out of service: stop and terminate. Both actions will stop the billing. The difference is that by stopping an instance, we can re-s...
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...
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 ...
Users can efficiently manage many web features through the Amazon EC2 web interface, which allows users to scale up or down, boot, and configure processor settings with just a few clicks. 2. Platform Freedom –Source:Amazon When you launch an application on an EC2 instance, you get the autho...
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 ...
The client running on the EC2 instance must have proxy settings pointing toward the Network Load Balancer. The load balancer will forward the request to the fleet of proxies in the target group. Prerequisites You need an already deployed VPC, with public and private subnets sp...
VPC as the Lambda function (3b). This minimizes the additional networking components required to interact with the secrets manager. More specifically, the EC2 instance runs an open-source HashiCorp Vault. In the rest of this post, I’ll refer to the HashiCorp Vault’s API...
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...
Is it possible to change the SSH Key on a running EC2 instance? If so, how? Answer If you need to switch to a new SSH Key, RightScale recommends that you terminate the instance, change the associated SSH Key and launch the instance again. Before terminating the instance or taking any c...