Amazon recently announced the AWS SDK for java.
SDK or a java api is very much needed – especially if you are writing your automation scripts in groovy. We have tried multiple java apis in our scripts including JetS3t and Typica. These apis were really helpful, but they only supported some of the [...]
Amazon ec2 costs can grow very fast if you are not mindful of the Amazon ec2 billing structure. We came across the following ways to save money at our company.
Keep machines in the same availability zone
Don’t scatter your machines that talk to each other across multiple availability zones. You will end up paying for [...]
Increasing size of your ebs volume is pretty easy. resize2fs does the trick. Here is the detailed procedure to increase size of your ebs volume.
First detach the volume and take a snapshot of the volume. If you already have a snapshot and haven’t made any changes after that, no need to take a new snapshot.
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?
We [...]
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 [...]
