Category Archives: Cloud

How to setup Amazon EC2 API on Linux Machine

February 22, 2013   Cloud, Linux Tips & Tutorials

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this how to is to enable the use of various command line tools of Amazon such as EC2 API, S3 API, Route53 API, etc.

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Converting Amazon EC2 Instance-store instances to EBS instances

February 8, 2012   Cloud, Linux Tips & Tutorials

The biggest reason most of us switch from instance store to EBS backed instance is that S3 backed (instance-store) images are not persistent i.e. they can loose the changes when rebooted whereas EBS provides “block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances.”.  The other basic differences are:

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