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 [...]
