Questions tagged [amazon-ami]
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are disk images of an operating system used to launch AWS EC2 instances.
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Amazon EC2 terminology - AMI vs. EBS vs. Snapshot vs. Volume
I have been poking around Amazon EC2, and am a little confused on some of the terminology. Specifically with regard to AMI, snapshots and volumes, and an EBS
Please correct me if I am wrong, or fill ...
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How to install Docker on AWS EC2 instance with AMI (CE/EE Update)
What is the current way of installing Docker on an AWS EC2 instance running the AMI?
There has been an announcement of Docker Enterprise Edition and now I want to know if anything has changed.
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How do I access the attached volume in Amazon EC2
I just attached another ebs volume to running instance. But how do I access the volume? I can't find the /dev/sda directory anywhere. Where should I look?
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Auto-Attach EBS-volume to a New Spot Instance?
I am experimenting with EC2 spot instances, and am needing some data to be retained between terminations. Now as I understand it, when the current price goes above my max. bid, it will be ...
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Update PHP with yum on Amazon Linux
I have Amazon Linux on EC2, AMI 2013.09. I followed the LAMP install tutorial, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html, and ended up with PHP5.3 installed.
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Is it possible to obtain a copy of Amazon Linux for use outside AWS
How difficult (if at all possible) would it be run a copy of Amazon Linux on a private physical server or hypervisor (Virtualbox/KVM) ? (I am thinking something based in a office/home)
I realise it ...
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How can I run the Ubuntu EC2 AMI images locally?
I've downloaded the Amazon Ubuntu EC2 AMI images (from http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/10.04/release/) and I am trying to run it locally on my linux desktop. Is it possible to run the AMI using ...
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EC2 Update my existing AMI
I'm using Elastic Load Balancing to load balance my Auto Scaling Group, for that I have a private AMI that hold my application server (Tomcat) and my web app deployed to it as war ... Now everything ...
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AMI with or without reboot on AWS EC2
When creating AMI's from an EC2 instance I always check "no reboot", I've been wondering, what are the pros/cons of creating images with/without a reboot? Does keeping the server live affect the ...
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Easiest way to show Maintenance page during EC2 instance down time
I need to perform some maintenance, which involves down-times of my EC2 production server. I would like to serve some user friendly Maintenance page meanwhile.
The easiest solution, I was able to ...
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Easy way to convert custom 32-bit AMI into 64-bit one?
I have customised (EBS-backed) AMI for running a demo version of an application of ours. (The AMI contains Ubuntu 11.04 with a Tomcat & MySQL setup for the app itself, and Jenkins for easy one-...
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How to download private ubuntu AWS EC2 AMI for local use
We have a large number of ubuntu servers currently hosted on AWS EC2. Many of these servers are accessed infrequently and for cost-saving we now want to move these over to our local site and terminate ...
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Convert Amazon AMI to VMware image
How can I convert an amazon ami image to a vmware image I can run locally in vmware player?
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Launching AWS Windows instance from snapshots?
I have a Windows-based Amazon EC2 instance with an EBS drive as the root device. Is it possible to launch a copy of this instance without creating an AMI - for instance, from a snapshot of the C: ...
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How can I have trust in a Community AMI offered on Amazon EC2
I want to launch a Fedora 24 instance on Amazon EC2. The Fedora Cloud download page no longer offers links to Fedora 24 AMIs, instead it offers links to "Fedora 25 Atomic Host" images (these are new ...
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Given an EC2 instance with an EBS AMI, How can I update the AMI's snapshot?
on EC2 my app servers are running the same EBS AMI. How can I update this AMI's snapshot to contain the latest configuration settings and site code?
I can only find tutorials that talk about creating ...
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EBS backed AMI become instance-store AMI when migrate across region
I'm a bit confused here. I've been trying this for days but couldn't get it to work. Hopefully someone could shed some light here.
I have 1 instance (Amazon AMI x86_64 AMI, EBS backed) running in us-...
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Launch new EC2 instance using shared private AWS AMI
I have a website running on t2.micro ec2 server (A). While it is running I created its AMI and shared it with another AWS account B.
I went to the B AWS account and tried to launch an EC2 instance ...
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