Link provided Istvan is down. Amazon now provides tool to export your EC2 image as Virtual Machine image ready to run locally: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport/ PS Please note that this method only works for Windows VMs Export the instance using the ec2-create-instance-export-task command. The export command captures the parameters necessary (instance ID, S3 bucket to hold the … Read more
Any AWS user can create a community AMI by making it public and shared with everyone. So the answer is just about anyone could have created that community AMI. While many are probably fine, you cannot trust them by default, in my opinion. Regarding the specific creator of the AMI in question, it appears that … Read more
They do exactly the same if you select the no reboot option when creating the AMI directly from EC2. This basically creates a snapshot that can potentially be in a inconsistent state. For example, you are risking more having an inconsistent state if you are doing a lot of disk writes when creating the snapshot. … Read more
When you attach an EBS volume, you specify the device to attach it as. Under linux, these devices are /dev/xvd* – and are symlinked to /dev/sd* In the AWS console, you can see your EBS volumes, what instances they are attached to, and the device each volume is attached as: You can achieve the same … Read more
This might help, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PhpMyAdmin#Add_blowfish_secret_passphrase If you see the following error message at the bottom of the page when you first log in to /phpmyadmin (using a previously setup MySQL username and password) : ERROR: The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret) You need to add a blowfish password to the phpMyAdmin’s config file. … Read more
To get Docker running on the AWS AMI you should follow the steps below (these are all assuming you have ssh’d on to the EC2 instance). Update the packages on your instance [ec2-user ~]$ sudo yum update -y Install Docker [ec2-user ~]$ sudo yum install docker -y Start the Docker Service [ec2-user ~]$ sudo service … Read more
I was in a similar situation; fully managed dedicated server, LAMP, CentOS. Then we decided to move to EC2. Also, I had very little systems or linux administration experience. I have almost zero experience with Ubuntu, so I really cannot speak to which is the so-called better OS. I tried a bunch of pre-built AMI’s … Read more
An AMI, as you note, is a machine image. It’s a total snapshot of a system stored as an image that can be launched as an instance. We’ll get back to AMIs in a second. Lets look at EBS. Your other two items are sub-items of this. EBS is a virtual block device. You can … Read more