Amazon machine image (AMI)An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an encrypted machine image stored in Amazon S3. It contains all the information necessary to boot instances of your software. Amazon EBSA type of storage that enables you to create volumes that can be mounted as devices by Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes behave like […]
Category: EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Command Line Tools Reference
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Command Line Tools Reference Guide provides the syntax, a description, options, and usage examples for each command line tool. This section describes who should read this guide, how the guide is organized, and other resources related to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is occasionally referred to […]
How to run Bucket Commander: A command line interface for Amazon S3
Bucket commander is a command line tool for Amazon S3. Bucket Commander needs a configuration file, which can be created using Bucket Explorer’s UI. Bucket Commander takes three arguments. ” -action ” , ” -authenticate ” and ” -emailprofile ” “ -emailprofile” is optional argument , you need to specify it only when you have […]
View EC2 Instances via Command Line Using ec2-describe-instances
Running ec2-describe-instances from the command line where you have AWS developer tools installed will display information about running instances. Example:To view instances simply run ec2-describe-instances To view detailed help information run ec2-describe-instances –help SYNOPSIS ec2din (ec2-describe-instances) ec2din [GENERAL OPTIONS] [INSTANCE [INSTANCE […]]] GENERAL NOTES Any command option/parameter may be passed a value of ‘-‘ to indicate […]
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing provides round robin web call distribution across a set of identical web instances. In addition to ease of administration it keeps an eye on the health of instances in the pool and auto routes traffic around any problem instances that show up. Here is the summary from Amazon. Elastic Load Balancing – […]
AWS EC2 Windows Passwords, Users, and Authentication
The default password on the Windows Administrator account is set automatically on all instances to a random value by the ec2Config service. You can retrieve the password originally set by using the ec2-get-password command, as shown here: C:>ec2-get-password i- -k gsg-keypair.txt Alternatively, you may use the “Get Administrator Password” command in ElasticFox by right-clicking on […]
A quick overview of PuTTY and SSH for AWS Newbies
Linux Access with SSH & PuTTY This post will (attempt) to explain what SSH and PuTTY are so that as a user you understand the terminology of AWS and so that you can be productive in the environment. This post will not attempt to make you an expert in SSH. For best practices in implementing […]
Connecting to AWS EC2 (Linux) Instance With PuTTY via SSH
In order to connect to an Amazon Web Services EC2 Linux instance using PuTTY over SSH you must generate a PPK file from your private key, then import the PPK to PuTTY. PuTTY does not natively support the private key format generated by Amazon EC2, therefore PuttyGen must be used to convert keys to its internal format. First, associate the […]
Escaping Restrictive/Untrusted Networks with OpenVPN on EC2
Perhaps you are behind a corporate firewall which does not allow you to access certain types of resources on the Internet. Or, perhaps you are accessing the Internet over an open wifi where you do not trust your network traffic to your fellow wifi users or the admins running the local network. These instructions guide […]