Ubuntu Beta Amazon AMIs
Though I’ve been using the Ubuntu Alestic AMI for the last few months to test and setup applications, I tried to sign up to the Ubuntu Server on Amazon – Beta Programme. Hope to learn,discuss,...
View ArticleALERT: Ubuntu upgrade causes problems with older 8.04 Hardy AMIs
This post was dated back Oct 9, 2008 at EC2 Ubuntu thread. Unfortunately, after several months of the running instance as a test machine, and when php5-dev package is installed, the error comes up. CPU...
View ArticleMigrate data using Amazon EBS to a new running instance in EC2.
Been running mysql server inside Amazon EC2 throught an Elastic Block store and needs to be migrated to a new instance. The tasks include: 1. Stopping mysql server. 2. Assume /var/lib/mysql and...
View ArticleGoogle Trends — checking some web stats
Google Trend for keyword: Cloud Computing Google Trend for keyword: EC2 Google Trend for keyword: SaaS Google Trend for keyword: Ruby on Rails Some stats on cloud computing would be a good basis for...
View ArticleDeleting Old EBS Snapshots
This is a plain and simple way to manage old mysql EBS snapshots. Maintain the latest five recent snapshots of a specific volume. You don’t want to mess with other existing volume snapshots, right? 1....
View ArticleAmazon Relational Data Service
Just received an email from Amazon AWS about their new service: Amazon Relational Service or RDS! Previously, MySQL database are configured to use an EBS volumes for persistence(Running MySQL on...
View ArticleMount EBS Volume On Startup
"There is more than one way to kill a cat", though I haven't killed a cat since birth. And so, there's another way of mounting EBS volume from boot startup. It's possible to replace the default volume...
View ArticleAnother Fabric Tutorial
I’ve been playing with Python here and at the same time Fabric v.0.9 for simple deployment. This is a handy tool to manage several servers for application development,testing and production. The code...
View ArticleFive Easy Steps to Tag EC2 Instance Using mr.awsome
Are you running 10,30 or 100 instances in your single EC2 Account? How do you identify each one? There have been lot of questions on how to tag and manage a bunch of EC2 instances. To tell you I’ve...
View ArticleAmazon Resource Tagging
After several years of waiting, Amazon now has new feature to tag instances, volumes, and other resources. Need to check it out? Amazon EC2 Resource Tagging Simple test with Tagging an EC2 instance and...
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