Tag: ec2
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Watch your EC2 Windows instance boot
AWS console feature doesn’t need RDP
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10 years and blogging strong
And there’s plenty more to come
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A primer on using Vagrant with AWS to launch EC2 instances
Sitting on my hard disk, eyeing virtual machines with good intent
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How to enable SQL Server 2008 R2 authentication mode with PowerShell
Some of my friends who follow this blog have told me that they have no idea what I’ve been posting about lately. That’s because my recent posts have been mostly about helping people who are Googling specific questions. If you are one of my pals who who’ve stuck with me here, thank you. I appreciate it.…
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How to manage EC2 EBS volume snapshots with PowerShell
One of the best features of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes in AWS is the capability to incrementally “snapshot” these volumes to more durable S3 storage. Everyone knows that if you don’t create these snapshots, one day your production EBS volume will go “poof” and disappear. Is that why the standard AWS icon, nearby, for a snapshot looks vaguely…
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AWS: the best thing since sliced bread?
At AWS re:Invent last November, I was invited to a marketing panel in which AWS sought customer feedback. I’ll never forget the developer on the panel who kept proclaiming his “love” of AWS — the answer to every question he was asked was, essentially, that AWS is the best technology ever invented. I think even…
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How to kill your Windows Server in EC2 with one click…and how to get it back
This is unlikely to be the most technical post I’ve written lately. But it might be among the most important. Here’s a rule for you: don’t ever disable the only network adapter in a Windows Server machine running in the cloud. Most of you are now saying, “Well…yes” and “Duh.” Just for the record in case it…
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Connect two AD FS federation servers
AD FS setup and configuration
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Managing EC2 instances in AWS Elastic Load Balancers
A simple PowerShell script to manage EC2 instances in an ELB
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Deregister an AWS AMI and remove associated S3 snapshots
Update 2016-04-28: I’ve written an updated version of the script below that offers a graphical interface for managing AMIs. Of course, the script below still works. Recently, I wrote a PowerShell script that uses an EC2 instance’s Name tag to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of that running instance. This post is about a bookend script…
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Create an EC2 AMI using instance name tags via PowerShell
Automate EC2 AMI creation
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How to set up AWS DNS in a VPC
Using DNS with your AWS VPC