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I needed to start a new EC2 instance today and decided to try out the new spot instances, where you can reduce your instance cost by bidding on the maximum per-hour price you're prepared to pay. Since today's spot price was only 35c / hour, compared with 85c / hour for an on-demand instance, I was…
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I needed to start a new EC2 instance today and decided to try out the new spot instances, where you can reduce your instance cost by bidding on the maximum per-hour price you're prepared to pay. Since today's spot price was only 3.5c / hour, compared with 8.5c / hour for an on-demand instance, I…
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Hi,
I am using cloudera setup to launch a cluster with hadoop on Amazon. Sometimes, the master hadoop node hangs and we have to restart the job from the job. Did anyone face similar problem and resolve the issue.
Thank you.
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IIS 7.5:
Ftp Firewall Suport: Data Ranges 49152-65535 using external Ip of Amazon EC2 static IP
Ftp IPv4 Restriction: allow: Amazon EC2 static IP
Ftp Authentication: Anonymous: Enabled, Basic: Disabled, IISMgr: Enabled
Ftp Authorization: Allow All Users: Read/Write
Windows Firewall (Inbound):
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I am not a Linux admin, although I wish I was, and I have seen these questions
Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy
Amazon EC2 + EBS:: Regular backup plan?
Simple Backup Strategy for Amazon EC2 instances / volumes?
And this suggestion
http://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-consistent-snapshot
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Summary. I have a fresh EC2 Precise 64-bit instance (ami-82fa58eb). After launching the instance, I want to install ruby1.9.1 (among others).
This doesn't work:
aptitude update &&
apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" --force-yes -fuy dist-upgrade &&
aptitude install -y ruby1…
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I am trying to use the various tools provided by ec2-ami-tools
Eg,
ec2-create-snapshot -h
....
-K, --private-key KEY
Specify KEY as the private key to use. Defaults to the value of the
EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.
-C, --cert…
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I am trying to implement an automatic backup system for my EBS on Amazon AWS.
When I run this command as ec2-user:
/opt/aws/bin/ec2-create-snapshot --region us-east-1 -K /home/ec2-user/pk.pem -C /home/ec2-user/cert.pem -d "vol-******** snapshot" vol-********
everything works fine.
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I needed to start a new EC2 instance today and decided to try out the new spot instances, where you can reduce your instance cost by bidding on the maximum per-hour price you're prepared to pay. Since today's spot price was only 35c / hour, compared with 85c / hour for an on-demand instance, I was…
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I needed to start a new EC2 instance today and decided to try out the new spot instances, where you can reduce your instance cost by bidding on the maximum per-hour price you're prepared to pay. Since today's spot price was only 3.5c / hour, compared with 8.5c / hour for an on-demand instance, I…
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