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How to create a Fedora 7 Instance for EC2

By | Published: June 2, 2007
Now that Fedora 7 is out I figured it was time to update the EC2 instance howto. It is almost exactly the same as creating a FC6 instance so if you want to know the details you can reference that article.
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EC2 and NAT

By | Published: April 3, 2007
Amazon just added NAT to their EC2 service. It also sounds like they will be turning the old direct addressing scheme off soon. This is probably a step towards assigning static IPs to your hosts in EC2. It may even allow you to have EC2 instances with no external IP address at all. It makes [...]
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Dynamic DNS with EC2 and ZoneEdit

By | Published: February 11, 2007
There seems to be a lot of questions on how to set up dyndns with EC2. It is fairly easy to do but I haven't seen anyone put everything together to do it yet so I figured I would write a little example using ZoneEdit. I picked ZoneEdit because it lets you sign up and [...]
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Debian EC2 AMI

By | Published: January 16, 2007
After working on my FC6 AMI I started thinking about how small of an AMI I could create. The goal would be to have a 10 meg or less image that is very specialized for doing something like serving images with lighttpd or apache. I started very very small but the lack of console access [...]
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Creating your own FC6 instance for EC2

By | Published: January 12, 2007
I've been playing around with the EC2 service at Amazon and figured I would document a little about how you create your own FC6 AMI. The Amazon documentation goes over everything you need to know about creating your own FC4 AMI and if you don't want to roll your own you can use one of [...]
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