Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 is Now Elasticfox-ec2tag

Previously I wrote about a great Amazon AWS management tool, Elasticfox, which is, or was, an extension for Firefox.  I started using Elasticfox a few years ago when I started using Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service.  At the time Amazon’s Management Console wasn’t all that great; it lacked many features and was a little […]

Resizing the Root Disk on an AWS EC2 EBS-backed Instance

Have you ever wanted to have a larger root EBS volume on an EC2 Ubuntu instance?  With these steps it’s easily accomplished with minimal down time.  (Some of these steps were gleaned from this post at alestic.com.) I’m setting up a new “base” image for some servers I’m starting in Amazon’s us-west-1 region.  I started […]