This is actually really easy: Go to the “Network & Security” -> Security Group settings in the left hand navigation Find the Security Group that your instance is apart of Click on Inbound Rules Use the drop down and add HTTP (port 80) Click Apply and enjoy
A fix for this problem is to add swap (i.e. paging) space to the instance. Paging works by creating an area on your hard drive and using it for extra memory, this memory is much slower than normal memory however much more of it is available. To add this extra space to your instance you … Read more
See the EC2 documentation on the subject. Run: wget -q -O – http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id If you need programmatic access to the instance ID from within a script, die() { status=$1; shift; echo “FATAL: $*”; exit $status; } EC2_INSTANCE_ID=”`wget -q -O – http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id || die \”wget instance-id has failed: $?\”`” Here is an example of a more … Read more
The bottom line is you should almost always use EBS backed instances. Here’s why EBS backed instances can be set so that they cannot be (accidentally) terminated through the API. EBS backed instances can be stopped when you’re not using them and resumed when you need them again (like pausing a Virtual PC), at least … Read more
There are two methods you can take for this. Unfortunately some work for some EB application types and some work for others. Supported/recommended in AWS documentation For some application types, like Java SE, Go, Node.js, and maybe Ruby (it’s not documented for Ruby, but all the other Nginx platforms seem to support this), Elasticbeanstalk has … Read more
A cloud application (or cloud app) is an application program that functions in the cloud, with some characteristics of a pure desktop app and some characteristics of a pure Web app. A desktop app resides entirely on a single device at the user’s location (it doesn’t necessarily have to be a desktop computer). A Web … Read more