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Virtual
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machine
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-
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made
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cloud
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computing
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possible
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Harvard
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class:
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http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/2010/01/13450/L07/seg1/index_FlashSingleHighBandwidth.html
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VM
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types:
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- Xen
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- -free
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- VMware
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- -
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- commercial,
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- used
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- by
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- industry,
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- full
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- virtualization
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- Parallels
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- -
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- tailored
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- for
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- Mac
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- users
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Amazon
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uses
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Xen
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,
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will
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be
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used
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by
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this
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class
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Hyperviser - VM 0-layer
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'Amazon
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web
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services'
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single
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Front:
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multiple
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back
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ends
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machines
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doing
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the
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work
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Jargon:
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- AMI
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- -
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- Amazon
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- Machine
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- Image
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- ,
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- it
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- is
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- a
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- file
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- on
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- a
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- disk
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- Instance
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- -
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- IMA
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- executed
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- to
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- become
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- a
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- machine
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- EBS
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- Volume
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- -
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- elastic
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- block
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- store
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- volume,
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- secondary
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- storage
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- allocated
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- elsewhere
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Various
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types
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of
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AMI,
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we
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will
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use
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Fedora
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-
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a
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version
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of
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Red
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Hat
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Linux
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On-Demand
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Instances:
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- c1.
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- small,
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- $0.10
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- per
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- hour
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- c1.medium
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- ,
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- 2
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- virtual
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- cores
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- c1.xLarge,
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- 8
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- virtual
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- cores,
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- $0.80
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- per
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- hours
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All
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resources
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are
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described
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at
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Private
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cloud
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computing:
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And
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this
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is
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my
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1st
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VM
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on
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the
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claud
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| Gallery | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Steps to fire VM & ssh to it (after you set up all credentials)
- login to AWS page
- select: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- TOP-UP: 'Your Account' , select 'AWS Management Console'
- TOP-UP-Yellow:
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- 'Sign
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- in
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- to
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- AWS
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- console'
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- 'Lunch
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- Instances'
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- select
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- type
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- of
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- VM
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- (e.g.
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- Fedora
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- for
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- regular
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- linux),
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- press
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- select
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- in
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- lunch
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- wizard
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- 'Skip
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- this'
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- select
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- #
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- of
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- machines
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- &
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- CPU
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- power
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- (star
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- with
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- 1,
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- small)
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- in
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- 'Key
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- Pair
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- Name'
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- select
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- ssh
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- Keys
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- you
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- have
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- created
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- earlier
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- if
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- you
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- want
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- output
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- to
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- survive
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- after
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- VM
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- is
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- shut
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- down
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- in
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- options
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- select:
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- Availability
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- Zone
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- &
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- remember
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- it
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- press
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- 'Lunch'
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- at
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- the
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- bottom
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Now
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- find
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- it
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-
,
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- it
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- is
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- beta-version,
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- pressing
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- 'Refresh'
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- screen
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- in
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- the
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- browser
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- may
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- help
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- to
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- ssh
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- to
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- this
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- machine
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- you
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- need
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- to
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- know:
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- Public
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- DNS,
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- sth
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- like:
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- ec2-75-101-246-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com
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- absolute
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- path
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- to
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- your
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- ssh
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- keys,
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- e.g.
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- janAmazonKey.pem
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- from
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- the
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- local
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- prompt
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- execute:
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ssh -i
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- ~/janAmazonKey.pem
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- root@ec2-75-101-246-229.compute-1.amazonaws.com
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If
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ssh
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hangs
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forever
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,
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you
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need
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to
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open
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fire
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wall.
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- On
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- the
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- left,
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- go
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- to
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- 'Security
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- Groups'
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- select
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- 'default'
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- fire
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- wall
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- (unless
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- you
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- have
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- sth
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- else
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- already)
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- add
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- &
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- save
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- :
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- SSH
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- tcp
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- 22
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- 22
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- 0.0.0.0
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- now
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- try
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- ssh
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- again
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Mounting EBS (permanent)
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volume
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to
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the
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instance
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(it
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was
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not
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reliable
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for
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me,
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between
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sessions
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data
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were
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partially
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corrupted)
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- 1st
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- time
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- it
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- need
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- formating
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- Browser:
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- Create
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- volume
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- ,
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- using
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- 'Volumes',
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- pick
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- 300GB
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- (it
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- is
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- small
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- and
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- not
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- pricy)
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- Browser:
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- right
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- click
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- on
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- the
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- volume,
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- attache
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- it
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- to
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- running
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- Instance
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- of
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- VM,
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- remember
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- name,
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- e.g.:
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- /dev/sdf
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- ssh
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- to
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- VM
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- partition
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- this
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- disk
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- ,
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- e.g.
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- using
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- fdisk
- fdisk /dev/sdf
- fdisk
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n
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- :
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- new
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- partition
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p
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- :
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- primary
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1
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- :
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- partion
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- #1
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1
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- :
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- (default
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- begin)
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enter
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- :
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- (default
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- end)
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p
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- :
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w
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- :
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- write
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- partition
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- format
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- disk
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- using
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- mkfs
mkfs.ext3
- mkfs
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- /dev/sdf1
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- ('1'
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- is
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- partition
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- selected
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- earlier)
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agrre
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- on
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- any
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- question
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- by
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- pressing
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- 'enter'
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- mount
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- disk
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- as
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- home
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- dir
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- named
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- storage
mkdir /storage
mount /dev/sdf1
- storage
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- /storage
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cd
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- /storage
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ls
SCP file from AMI to local machine
scp -i ~/janAmazonKey.pem
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root@ec2-174-129-63-11.compute-1.amazonaws.com:"/bla
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_
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lis
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"
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.
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You
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are
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done.
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Well,
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you
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need
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to
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pay
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for
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it.
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This
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is
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my
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1st
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bill:
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| Gallery | ||||
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Full price list
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Bundling & registering AMI
It works the best in a machine w/ installed Java and some EC2 software. This is reasonable instruction:http://www.linuxconfig.org/Howto_CREATE_BUNDLE_UPLOAD_and_ACCESS_custom_Debian_AMI_using_ubuntu
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It
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is
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written
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for
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Ubuntu
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9.04
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machine,
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so
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I
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selected
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this
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VM:
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ami-2bfd1d42
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binarymillenium/ec2/ubuntu/version2/image.manifest.xml
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and
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added
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the
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following:
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next
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I
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added:
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mkdir
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~/aws
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cd
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~/aws
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wget
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-api-tools.zip
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wget
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/ec2-ami-tools.zip
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sudo unzip -d /opt/
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ec2-api-tools.zip
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sudo
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unzip
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-d
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/opt/
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ec2-ami-tools.zip
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export
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EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3-42584/
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export
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PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME//bin/
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export
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JAVA_HOME=/usr/
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If
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c-shell
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is
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used
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do:
| Code Block |
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} setenv EC2_HOME /opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3-46266/ setenv PATH $PATH":$EC2_HOME/bin/" {code} |
Now
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I
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was
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able
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to
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test
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the
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following
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command
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does
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sth
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ec2-register
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I
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probably
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should
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also
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have
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set
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export
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EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-K5AHLDNT3ZI28UIE6Q7CC3YZ4LIZ54K7.pem
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export
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EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-K5AHLDNYYZI2FUIE6R7CC3YJ4LIZ54K7.pem
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export
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EC2_ACCNO=155678941235
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export
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ACCESS_KEY=1WQ6FJKYHJMPTJ3QR6G2
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export
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SECRET_KEY=VDYxRzosnDWvxrJ97QntVpsSUBAavGHE1QJELEyY
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If
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'ruby'
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is
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missing
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execute:
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sudo
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apt-get
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install
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ruby
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Alternative:
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sudo
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apt-get
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install
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ec2-ami-tools
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Below
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are
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steps
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leading
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to
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bundling
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&
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registering
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- copy
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- X.509
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- certificate
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scp -i
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- ~/XXXXAmazonKey.pem
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- ~/pk-XXXXXXXX.pem
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- ~/cert-YYYYYYC.pem
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- root@ec2-174-129-63-11.compute-1.amazonaws.com:"/mnt/"
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- bundle external image
ec2-bundle-vol
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- -d
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- /mnt
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- -k
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- /mnt/pk-XXXXXXXX.pem
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- -c
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- /mnt/cert-YYYYYYYYY.pem
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- -u
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- nnnn-mmmm-kkkk
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- -r
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- i386
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- -p
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- star-sl08b-image
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- -v
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- /bla_image
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- --generate-fstab
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- Uploading
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- the
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- AMI
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- to
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- Amazon
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- S3
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ec2-upload-bundle
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- -b
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- <your-s3-bucket>
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- -m
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- /mnt/sampleimage.manifest.xml
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- -a
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- <aws-access-key-id>
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- -s
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- <aws-secret-access-key>
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- Register
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- Image
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- at
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- EC2
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ec2-register
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- star-sl08b-s3-bucket/star-sl08b-image.manifest.xml
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Conversion of VMware to EC2
http://thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/9/1/creating-an-new-ec2-ami-from-within-vmware-or-from-vmdk-files
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