Posts Tagged ec2
Cheaping out on EC2 – using Spot Instances
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin, Uncategorized on September 1, 2012
Amazon markets Spot Instances as a way to reduce the price you pay for instances. So, continuing my efforts to reduce expenses on EC2, I looked into using spot instances. Spot instances are essentially just like normal instances. You can create your own AMIs, where you essentially create an image and tell Amazon to create […]
HLDS on EC2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on August 16, 2012
Update Jul 2014 – use the shiny new SteamCMD tool. Also, I started using DigitalOcean instead of EC2 (marginally cheaper, incredibly easier to setup) Create a Instance – spot works Install wget, tar, ncompress – depends on your distro, fedora 17 by default didn’t come with this (which, btw, is WTF?!) Also, screen to run […]
Cheaping out on EC2 – Downsizing existing EBS volumes
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on June 6, 2012
I’m moving a VM from my own server to EC2. I’ve got $50 worth of credit from a Redhat event, so I would like to make use of that. (That, and my AWS account existed before the free tier was introduced, so I’m not eligible for that.) That said, I want to make that credit […]
Removing bloat from Fedora 17 on EC2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on June 6, 2012
I’m in the middle of trialing EC2, and I’m using the official Fedora 17 images kindly provided by the community. They make a great starting point, because I can then install my needed software. Some of which, though, I consider absolutely crucial. So far, I’ve need to install vim, less, rsync and screen. I can […]