Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a cloud-based computing platform.

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How do I know what Ubuntu AMI to launch on EC2?

When I want to launch an instance of Ubuntu on EC2, how do I find the right one? There are thousands of public images that have "Ubuntu" in their name. I am only interested in running the Official ...
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How to specify ec2 instance types for different services?

After I have specified a default EC2 instance type for my Juju charm, how do I override that for one of the services? For instance, the Juju tutorial deploys wordpress and mysql, and I can set the ...
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Not enough disk space '/' in AWS instance

i am running Ubuntu 11.04 instance for my Web Server on AWS cloud, now i am getting there is no disk space in / partition of my server. df -ah say this Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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blocking all outgoing ports and its consequences

Is this the right way to block all outgoing ports? : ufw default deny outgoing But what are the consequences of doing this on amazon ec2? I'm running possibly unsafe perl scripts on my instance and ...
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Is my Amazon EC 2 running Amazon Linux or Ubuntu?

I am a little confused here. I created a Amazon EC2 instance with Ubuntu Linux 64-bit 12.04 LTS, now when I SSH into it I get the following but on Amazon Management console I get the following ...
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Blacklisting grub packages from installing

I am trying to block GRUB packages from being installed (after having purged them). The problem is virtually identical to Blacklisting packages from installing and even involves GRUB which is exactly ...
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Where is hadoop-ec2-env.sh in the Hadoop packages?

I'm unable to locate the file hadoop-ec2-env.sh. I've downloaded and intalled hadoop_1.0.4-1_x86_64.deb from http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/hadoop/common/stable/ This is the most recent ...
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When uninstalling all GRUB packages for EC2 AMI build script, how do I bypass prompting?

When I try to uninstall all GRUB packages from the cloud-image version of Ubuntu I use in AWS EC2, I get an interactive prompt. I need put this all in a script under automation, so prompts need to be ...
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What are the upstart events to monitor to attach/detach an EBS volume and an elastic IP at startup/shutdown?

I'm setting up an Ubuntu instance on Amazon EC2 and I'm trying to configure it so that, at startup, it automatically attaches an EBS volume and takes an elastic IP address and, at shutdown, it ...