Continue with yesterday's good news, another exciting new feature on EBS - Elastic Volumes. It allows you to dynamically increase capacity, tune performance, and change the type of any new or existing current generation volume with no downtime or performance impact. Check it out: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/#elasticvolumes
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Attach an IAM role to your existing Amazon EC2 instance
It was painful that you are unable to change the instance profile for existing EC2 instance. A good news is that you CAN now via AWS CLI!! Here is a step by step example.
Can AWS default VPC be deleted?
Can AWS default VPC be deleted? I checked AWS documentations and it seems the following two are against each other. So I opened a ticket with AWS, and here is their answer: Technically yes, you can delete default VPC's and create a non-default VPC. Some services such as CloudFormer to create CloudFormation templates do searches … Continue reading Can AWS default VPC be deleted?
Elastic Beanstalk – No Solution Stack named … found
Just found out that even with the same version number, the stack solution release date could be different in different region. Therefore, the stack name for the same version could be different across regions. For example, solution stack java 7 tomcat 7 v1.1.0. In ap-southeast-2 region, the stack name is 64bit Amazon Linux 2014.09 v1.1.0 running … Continue reading Elastic Beanstalk – No Solution Stack named … found
Great AWS Trusted Advisor
I have to say AWS Trusted Advisor is a great tool! AWS keeps improving it by adding more useful new checks. Here is one that I got this morning: I setup health checks for some new records, but forgot to decrease TTL to a low value (it is 300 seconds by default). Now trusted advisor reminds … Continue reading Great AWS Trusted Advisor
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