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Entries for the ‘Amazon AWS’ Category

EBS-based instance problems

The instance I run this blog was slightly impacted a few days ago. All of a sudden I could not ssh into the instance and the Apache was running really painfully slow. It did not really work at all. While I was already fantasizing that my really super awesome new web-2.0-youtube-facebook-twitter crossbreed vKaiser.com had gotten [...]

Dear Amazon, please make DevPay available in Europe!

So you have your great new application utilizing all the awesomeness of Amazon AWS? How you gonna sell it?
There are vague definitions of what is a cloud service and one of the prerequisites was that you could buy the service with your credit card and to pay only for the resources you use. Amazon DevPay [...]

Unexpected Outage

The site went down today for a few hours and the worst thing is, it was sort of my own fault. The last time I was playing with booting from Amazon EBS I must have made a mistake when detaching volumes from the (wrong) instances. Thus, the incident was caused by the EBS volume not [...]

Booting from Amazon EBS

Amazon has announced a new feature of booting instances from EBS volume. This feature changes radically the way how AWS instances can be preserved if compared to the traditional volume bundling and uploading to S3.
Though this all sounds nice, it isn’t really too easy to convert existing instaces to boot from EBS. All previous instances [...]

Monitoring an Amazon AWS instance

I have put together a task list of what I would like to test with the Amazon AWS infrastructure and so far I have gotten my web server running with EBS. Also the volume bundling and instance creation has been tested a few times. The system has been running quite ok for the past two [...]