Posts Tagged ‘Amazon EC2

When I was configuring IIS on my 32 bits small instance, it asked me for the windows installation files (i386). You can attach these to your image as an EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volume. In your AWS Management Console navigate to “Volumes” Create a new volume and give it a minimum size of 2 GB [...]

I recently added an article in which I took a first look into Amazon AWS. I used the commmand line tools, this time I’m gonna use the provided AWS Management Console. On first login, my first thought is that this probably is easier than the command line tools. First of all I’m going to change [...]

EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud. It is a web service that enables you to launch and manage Linux/UNIX and Windows server instances in Amazon’s data centers using APIs or available tools and utilities. You can use these instances to do all kind of things. Say you’re hosting a website and suddenly your site gets [...]