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By bloid
via blog.codesta.com
Published: Mar 20 2008 / 15:44
This article focuses on the problematic aspects of EC2 - issues that can lead to serious problems or technicalities that if ignored, can lead to frustrating hours wasted on troubleshooting and debugging. We've learned that the single most important thing you can do for your EC2 environment is to give it a dynamic DNS solution it can use to overcome the DHCP nature of virtual machines. Now what can you do for yourself, you ask? Take a look at the gotchas we encountered and save yourself from dealing with the same problems.
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fancyfootwork replied ago:
Thanks! Saved me some headaches for an upcoming project.
kogent replied ago:
pretty standard stuff if you've been using EC2 at all.
Also helpful is the fact that you can pass data as a string or binary at startup time. This can be used to pass parameters(ie- dns hostname, package install list, config files for services, scripts) that your instance can use to configure itself (via startup scripts you write) and startup in a desired state.
srt replied ago:
Anybody who has read the introducory docs of EC2 will know this... and documentation of AWS is really excellent.
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