Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform "in the cloud". If you have a question about a specific web service, consider asking on its tag, e.g., amazon-ec2.
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Which AWS services am I using?
When I sign into the AWS Management Console, I just see a list of all the services. How do I know which ones I'm using? Can I hide the ones I'm not using?
I much prefer the way Heroku organizes things. It shows your apps first. Then, when you click…
ma11hew28
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How can I separate my personal Amazon account from my AWS account?
I recently enabled Amazon Web Services on my personal Amazon account, but I would like to have separate login credentials. I know that I can use IAM to create different users within AWS, but I'm still left with the same login credentials for my AWS…
Ellis
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How do I set a VPC in AWS to 'default VPC' = true?
I have one VPC set up in AWS, but Default VPC is set to 'false'.
How can i change it to true, and make it the default VPC?
sam fisher
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How can I monitor daily spending on AWS?
Our infrastructure is on AWS. I want to get a daily report on how much spent on the previous day. What is the best way to do it?
Sabya
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How can I see my IOPS burst credits?
I've been reading some EBS docs
and they are talking about "I/O credit balance"
How can I view my current (or historical) credit balance?
Each volume receives an initial I/O credit balance of 5,400,000 I/O
credits, which is enough to sustain…
Mike Graf
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Can you configure AWS Console for your time zone?
We have a maintenance event coming up on our EC2 servers, and the AWS Console lists the event time in UTC-5 - which is US Eastern.
Start time September 26, 2014 7:00:00 AM UTC-5
Our company is not in this time zone (we're in Central), nor is it…
DOOManiac
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AWS IAM - AssumeRole within same account?
I'm trying to configure permissions for CloudTrail > S3 > SQS > Splunk workflow.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddOns/released/AWS/ConfigureAWSpermissions
I created a role, attached a policy to grant permissions for S3, SQS etc.
I went to…
HKrishna
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bucket policy vs iam policy which one takes the precedence
I have a task to create an S3 bucket named "xyz" and give Read-Write access to particular users. I have created the bucket and wrote an IAM policy like the following and attached it to specific users.
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement":…
Nishanth
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AWS Gateway API: Multi-Region deployment from the same domain
I have a lambda-backed api gateway that i deployed in two regions. These two API's are totally identical. I have two different URL's like
*.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
*.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
My idea was defining the same…
Çağatay Gürtürk
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How do I configure AWS Kinesis Firehose to be able to copy into Redshift?
Problem
I have set up a Firehose and selected options that it seemed would result in the streamed data to end up in Redshift. I have a single Firehose and a single target table in Redshift. The data is showing up correctly in the intermediate S3…
km6zla
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Is there a way to duplicate entire AWS environment
I know I can create image from my existing instance and relaunch them later, what I want to know is if there is a way to duplicate my whole environment, like duplicate every VM in UAT to create Beta.
Ask and Learn
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On AWS why does internal DNS lookup for RDS fail in PHP page?
I have an AWS Elastic Beanstalk configuration (PHP) with one EC2 instance and one RDS instance. It's a QA environment. It was working well but recently it started to fail consistently with the following error (there have been no code…
mikemay
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AWS instance giving me less NVMe space than advertised
I recently provisioned 10 m5d.large instances (with Terrafor. The advertised space is "1 x 75 NVMe SSD", however when I ssh on to the instance I see.
[root@web0 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.8G 0 …
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AWS EC2 security groups not working as expected
I have two kinds of instances: servers and workers.
I have two security groups - server_security_group and worker_security_group
Servers belong to the server_security_group, workers to worker_security_group
In server_security_group I have set an…
Omroth
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How do I associate an ElasticIP to an API Gateway in AWS?
I'd like to have an API gateway to act a proxy that talks to an External API (let's call it E-API) with an attached token, on behalf of my AWS resources (Lambda, EC2 etc).
But E-API only accepts requests from certain whitelisted IPs agreed upon…
Aditya M P
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