Tag Archives: AWS

How to Build and Compile a Custom Linux Kernel for EC2

By | Published: September 9, 2010
I have a long running goal that I'm trying to reach with all these pv-grub for EC2 posts. That goal is to find the smallest/tightest usable node that can be created for EC2. The next step in that path requires a custom Linux kernel. What follows is how to build the latest Linux kernel so [...]
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Installing Cent OS 5.5 on EC2 with the Cent OS 5.5 Kernel

By | Published: August 10, 2010
Amazon recently introduced the ability to boot a custom kernel using pv-grub on EC2. This opens the door for all kinds of interesting ideas that I've been thinking about for a while, like seeing if I can boot right into a web server and skip all that extra junk that comes with Linux distributions, but [...]
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Automounting Amazon EBS volumes on EC2 instances

By | Published: December 23, 2008
I've been using S3 to store semi-transient information like log files from EC2 nodes in the past but recently decided to give Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) a try instead. I quickly realized a downside to using EBS in that there is no mechanism for auto-attach and mounting volumes when an AMI is launched. This [...]
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