The default time zone of your RDS database instance is UTC. It simply can not be changed. RDS does not give you super privileges. That is why you won’t be able to change the global time zone by simply executing: SET GLOBAL time_zone = ‘US/Pacific’;
Enabling remote desktop on an ubuntu ec2 instance is pretty easy by using NX. We will use FreeNX at the server and NoMachine NX client on the client machine. NX is a much better alternative to VNC. You can install NoMachine client on windows, mac or linux. For more information visit http://www.nomachine.com
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 [...]
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 [...]
