Amazon RDS Now Supports T2 Instances

That is good news. T2 instances CPU credits is really great feature introduced 2 months ago for EC2. Amazon RDS Now Supports T2 Instances At the same time the price for T2 RDS instances is twice less then for the previous generation. T2.micro EC2 + T2.micro RDS are good if you are thinking about web app

Terminate EC2 Spot/On-Demand instance by name

Declare function to terminate instance by Id function ec2-terminate-instance($instid){ $ec2.TerminateInstances((new-object Amazon.EC2.Model.TerminateInstancesRequest).WithInstanceId($instid)).TerminateInstancesResult.TerminatingInstance[0]} Get instance by name and terminate it $filter = (new-object Amazon.EC2.Model.Filter).WithName(‘tag:Name’).WithValue(‘YourInstanceName’) (Get-EC2Instance -Filter $filter -Region ‘us-east-1’).RunningInstance | % { ec2-terminate-instance $_.InstanceId }

Stop EC2 On-Demand instance by name

$filter = (new-object Amazon.EC2.Model.Filter).WithName(‘tag:Name’).WithValue(‘YourInstanceName’) (Get-EC2Instance -Filter $filter -Region ‘us-east-1’).RunningInstance | % { Stop-EC2Instance $_.InstanceId -Region ‘us-east-1’}

Schedule your Amazon EC2 spot instance startup time

Here I want to explain how to start your Amazon EC2 instance recurrently by scheduling. I have used the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. You can use java command line or python library. The main goal is to explain the idea: I am going to automate the starting of my Fitnesse server. Create launch configuration

Connecting to Official Ubuntu Images for EC2

Read first To connect to an instance of an official Ubuntu image for EC2, you need to ssh to it as “ubuntu” instead of as “root”. Hmm…what next to do?:)

Why can’t I ssh or ping my brand new Amazon EC2 instance?

I just created a free EC2 instance with all the defaults. It says it’s running in the AWS Management Console. On the “Instance Actions” menu, I click “Connect”. I copy the DNS name provided (looks like ec2-a-dashed-IP-address.compute-1.amazonaws.com) and try to SSH to it. No response. I can’t even ping it. What gives? answer: http://goo.gl/T6pQD