Amazon documentation states that Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define. Simply put, it can start and stop ec2 instances based on a condition you define. This is especially important in an environment where you pay more for more capacity. Thus if a [...]
Let’s say you have 10 ec2 instances up and they do various different kinds of work. Some are web servers, some are queue servers, some are cache servers and a cluster with hadoop/hbase. Have you found it hard to remember which server is which? Wouldn’t it be cool if Amazon let us name our servers? [...]
Amazon recently announced a new feature which allows you to boot from an ebs volume. But it doesn’t provide any tools to convert your existing AMIs to this new type of image. There is no easy way to create an ebs image from scratch. There are some posts that explain how to convert your existing [...]
Wouldn’t it be cool if when your ec2 instance starts it has your java web application automatically deployed? This will be especially suitable for those who want to take advantage of AWS Auto Scaling feature. It’s fairly simple to achieve this. First thing you need to do is to designate a bucket in S3 to [...]
Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) offers hosted MySQL database in the cloud. In pre RDS era, you would have fired up an instance, installed MySQL yourself on it, configured an EBS volume so that the database data storage is persistent. You would have setup a cron to snapshot your EBS volume. But RDS saves the [...]
