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Low transfer rates on Amazon's EC2
I have a question re transfer rates on Amazons EC2. Basically I am evaluating a move to the Amazon stack of services, however wanted to benchmark it against our current setup first.
My setup is pretty ...
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Easy GUI way to auto scale EC2 and RDS: aws console, scalr, ylastic...?
I am managing all my instances with the AWS Management Console (the GUI web console) but now I want to use Auto Scale and it seems that this can not be done with that console. Yes, there is CloudWatch ...
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Strategy for maintaining Amazon RDS instance on prod vs development
How do you folks manage your Amazon RDS instances? In production I obviously want to use Amazon RDS with a master-slave replication setup going. Unfortunately this incurs substantial costs to bring ...
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AWS EC2 dns resolution diagnostic
I am using EC2 instances with amazon linux installed (with amazon dns server settings, which comes from DHCP), as well as an RDS database. The EC2 instances are behind ELB and get high traffic. The ...
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How to create a local backup of a remote Amazon RDS MySQL database?
How do I create a local backup of a remote Amazon RDS MySQL database? What I need to know is how to make a complete full local backup of a MySQL database (not a remote Amazon snapshot) that can be ...
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Amazon RDS instance stopped responding
We've been running a large RDS instance in production for over year without a single moment of downtime. Recently, with a bigger budget and higher stakes, we decided to convert it to a multi-AZ ...
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RDS, scalr with EC2 or xeround for a 40GB database
We are currently preparing for a move of a reasonably high traffic web site to the cloud.
We are thinking of using scalr to help us manage the whole setup especially since we dont have experience ...
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amazon RDS Security Groups Issue
We had a odd issue today related to the security groups in our RDS.
All the sudden, without any changes from our end, our RDS instance's security group stopped working. No server was able to connect ...
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Why can't I connect to Amazon RDS after setting it up?
So, I just created the Amazon RDS account.
And I started an instance of database.
The "endpoint" is:
abcw3n-prod.cbmbuiv8aakk.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com
Great! Now I try to connect to it from one ...
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Setup game server using amazon web service?
I am relative new to amazon web services (aws). I would like to setup a game server for my next coming project. Basically, I just need a database(mysql) and php to connect to the database, nothing ...
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Hosting a MySQL server on Amazon Web Services
We are evaluating hosting our application on Amazon EC2 service. While I am confident that a Small instance (1.7GB RAM) will be sufficient for our web server (at this point), I am not sure about ...
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How to architect my application on AWS cloud?
I am plannig to port an e-exam app on the aws cloud. I have decided to use a ELB, EC2 instances. But i am confused on wether to use a MYSQL DB server on amazon instance or to go for amazon RDS?
Also ...
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Public Amazon RDS database?
Is there any way to add a wildcard security group to Amazon RDS?
I'm trying to connect from an EC2 under the same account, but had no luck with the security groups. So I'm resorting to just opening ...
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What is "freeable memory"?
Amazon RDS has a metric for 'freeable memory'. It appears to go up & down in a sawtooth pattern.
This leads me to believe that it's memory that is being used by MySQL for caching and that when ...
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How different is an Amazon EC2 RDS DB Instance different from the normal EC2 Instance?
How different is the Amazons RDS DB Instance different from The normal EC2 Instance other than the fact that RDS DB Instance has a Database server running on it?
When an EC2 Instance goes down all ...
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