Create Amazon Web Service EC2 Key Pair
Recently I have been involved in a new project to evaluate the ease and use of the Amazon Web Services cloud based solution to enable us manage and query over 5TB of PMTA log files. Since Amazon AWS...
View ArticleHow to create an Amazon S3 bucket
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an online storage facility. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data in the scale of magabytes to terabytes from anywhere in the...
View ArticleCloud Computing with Amazon Web Service
What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. These resources can be rapidly provisioned...
View ArticleSetup EC2 instance Private Key using Putty
Few weeks back while working on a PMTA log file project, I needed to create an Elastic MapReduce job flow whilst ensuring that I am the only the person authorized to access the workflow console. To...
View ArticleMake your Amazon S3 bucket publicly accessible
If you have files stored on Amazon S3 bucket and would like to make them accessible to the public, this article will guide you on how to achieve that. Its simple to do. Steps: - Log into your Amazon S3...
View ArticleInstall Windows Server or Instance on Amazon EC2
In this post, I will be showing you how to spin-up a Windows Server machine on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This post will get you started on how to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)...
View ArticleInstalling the Amazon EMR Command Line Interface for Windows
I was working on a simple project on how to manage my Amazon EC2 and S3 buckets from my local machine and decided to document how to achieve this using the Amazon EMR CLI for Windows. There are several...
View ArticleCreating a Hive Cluster job using Amazon EMR CLI
Following from my previous post on Installing the Amazon EMR Command Line Interface for Windows, I will look at how to create an Elastic MapReduce job (Hive Cluster) from the CLI. This includes...
View ArticleAssign an Elastic IP Address to an EC2 Instance
I recently installed a new Ec2 instance and setup the system for a web service. At some point, I rebooted the instance and noticed that I could not connect to the web service via the Public IP address...
View ArticleInstall AWS on Windows to manage Amazon EC2 and S3
AWS is a command-line tool that gives you easy access to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 from the convenience of your desktop machine. Credit goes to Timothy Kay for developing this awesome tool. I have seen...
View ArticleInstall Ubuntu Server 13.10 on Amazon Web Service EC2 with screenshots
Today I will cover how to set up an Ubuntu Server v13.10 on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance. That said Amazon offers a free tier for both new and existing clients, which...
View ArticleHowTo setup S3Fox Plugin for Amazon S3 Bucket
S3Fox Organizer helps you organize, manage and store your files on Amazon S3 bucket. The user interface is clean and intuitive, has all the basic features you need and it works fast. It is easy to...
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