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I'd like to setup a rule to block ssh request from EC2 since I've been seeing a large amount of ssh base attack from there and was wondering if anyone knew what their IP ranges are.
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Summary. I have a fresh EC2 Precise 64-bit instance (ami-82fa58eb). After launching the instance, I want to install ruby1.9.1 (among others).
This doesn't work:
aptitude update &&
apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" --force-yes -fuy dist-upgrade &&
aptitude install -y ruby1…
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I am trying to use the various tools provided by ec2-ami-tools
Eg,
ec2-create-snapshot -h
....
-K, --private-key KEY
Specify KEY as the private key to use. Defaults to the value of the
EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.
-C, --cert…
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I am trying to implement an automatic backup system for my EBS on Amazon AWS.
When I run this command as ec2-user:
/opt/aws/bin/ec2-create-snapshot --region us-east-1 -K /home/ec2-user/pk.pem -C /home/ec2-user/cert.pem -d "vol-******** snapshot" vol-********
everything works fine.
But if I add…
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I needed to start a new EC2 instance today and decided to try out the new spot instances, where you can reduce your instance cost by bidding on the maximum per-hour price you're prepared to pay. Since today's spot price was only 35c / hour, compared with 85c / hour for an on-demand instance, I was…
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I needed to start a new EC2 instance today and decided to try out the new spot instances, where you can reduce your instance cost by bidding on the maximum per-hour price you're prepared to pay. Since today's spot price was only 3.5c / hour, compared with 8.5c / hour for an on-demand instance, I…
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I posted on stackoverflow as to the overall benefits of managed hosting vs non-managed hosting.
The more I think about it, it seems to boil down to one question: should I use a managed host because they take care of the firewall, or would I be okay managing my own, software firewall?
The sites…
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We have a debate in our office going on whether it's necessary to get a hardware firewall or set up a virtual one on our VMWare cluster.
Our environment consists of 3 server nodes (16 cores w/ 64 GB RAM each) over 2x 1 GB switches w/ an iSCSI shared storage array.
Assuming that we would be dedicating…
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I've recently changed jobs and I've been set up with a new workstation. On all previous places where I've been working they've had some sort of local firewall installed on each and every workstation - but here I've been told not to activate it because it is not necessary since we're already behind…
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I've recently changed jobs and I've been set up with a new workstation. On all previous places where I've been working they've had some sort of local firewall installed on each and every workstation - but here I've been told not to activate it because it is not necessary since we're already behind…
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Hi guys I have been trying for a few hours to install and get FTP to work...
I did yum install ftp and yum install vsftpd
They all installed and are running but when I try to use filezilla or some other client I just can't connect....I've tried connecting on port 21 and port 990 ....nothing!
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