Recently Amazon rolled out S3 Bucket Policies (see Access Policy Language) to more finely control access to S3 buckets or resources in buckets, than with just ACL’s alone. This was very timely as I had a need arise to use a bucket policy just after it came out. Basically I needed to block access of […]
Category: Amazon Web Services
Recover From 120 Day Terminal Services Eval Time Bomb in Windows Servers on EC2
I’ve always been frustrated by Windows messages like, “please see your administrator. . .” I AM the administrator, I don’t need to see myself, I need useful information to lead me in the right direction to troubleshoot and correct a problem. Here’s a new one that really frustrated me this week. I have several Amazon […]
Copying ElasticFox Tags from One Browser to Another
The ElasticFox Firefox extension allows you to tag EC2 instances, EBS volumes, EBS snapshots, Elastic IPs, and AMIs. ElasticFox’s tags are stored locally within Firefox, so if you use ElasticFox from more than one browser your tags from one browser are not visible in any other browser. Also, if your browser crashes you may lose […]
Maximum EBS Volumes on EC2 Windows EBS-backed Instances – EBS Volume Limit
Last week I wrote about The Maximum (EBS) Drives/Volumes for an EC2 Windows Instance. In that I discussed the max I had discovered was 12. While that is accurate, it is important to understand that was based on “instance-store” (or S3-backed) instances. Since I’ve been working recently with EBS-backed Windows (2003 and 2008) instances I […]
What is the Maximum Drives for an EC2 Windows Instance? – EBS Volume Limit
Yesterday while I was doing some performance testing on Amazon EBS (elastic block storage) volumes attached to a Windows AMI (Amazon machine instance) I ran into an unanticipated issue – the maximum number of drives associated with an EC2 Windows server was lower than I expected. The max connected drives is 12 – this includes […]
Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
I’ve been using ElasticFox for a while now and thought I’d jot down a few notes about it. I don’t use it exclusively to manage my Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances, EBS volumes, etc., but usually I do go there first. It’s worth mentioning that I also use the AWS Management Console and EC2 […]
Amazon S3 Command Line Utilities for Windows
I’ve searched high and low for a good all around command line utility to interact with Amazon S3 buckets from Windows. While I’m still searching for just the right utility for me here are a few which I use from time-to-time. Why use more than one, you ask? Well, since I haven’t found just […]
Installing EC2 Command Line Tools on Windows
UPDATE (12-2016): See HowTo: Install AWS CLI on Both Windows and Linux for updated information on installing, configuring and using the AWS CLI unified tools. NOTE: This tutorial contains information for both AMI and API command line tools along with ELB tools. Most users will need the API tools, some the ELB tools, and not many […]
Windows 2008 Server on Amazon’s EC2 – a First Look
Within a couple hours of Amazon’s announcement of the availability of Windows 2008 machine images (AMI’s) on their EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform a few days ago I had to give it a try – see my previous post, “Amazon EC2 Now Offers Windows Server 2008 – Finally!” I used RightScale to locate and launch […]
Amazon EC2 Now Offers Windows Server 2008 – Finally!
I opened my email this morning and much to my pleasure I found this announcement from Amazon: Amazon EC2 Now Offers Windows Server 2008 Starting today, Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server® Standard 2008 instances in all Amazon EC2 Regions. This new announcement extends Amazon EC2’s existing Microsoft-based offerings […]