AWS

Simple Free-Tier AWS EC2 Instance Setup

This is the first of a few articles detailing how to host multiple Node.js or PHP websites on a single EC2 instance. 1. Log in to AWS, and click on EC2 2. Click on Launch Instance under Create Instance 3. Select the underlying OS you'd like to use. I've

AWS

Convert an AWS instance-store AMI to an EBS backed AMI

Borrowed this from a site I had to pull up via Google's cache with some additions. I recently needed to convert an AWS instance-store AMI to an EBS backed AMI. Here’s the steps I took in order to fix that. It’s a ext3 file system in this example,