AWS – Adventures with AWS

Separate volumes

Published on May 19, 2015 Author adventurerLeave a comment

This post assumes you’re using EC2 instances with Amazon Linux – some of the specific commands and file locations may vary if you’re using other variants of Linux By default AWS starts all instances with a single root volume. Although this can be an EBS (Elastic Block Store, i.e. persistent) or ephemeral, it is deleted… Continue reading Separate volumes →

Using the AWS Free Usage Tier

Published on January 17, 2015 Author roving_adventurerLeave a comment

The AWS Free Usage Tier allows for first-time users of AWS to consume a certain amount of compute, traffic and storage resources for free and, if you stay within those limits month-to-month you can continue to run the services you have built on AWS infrastructure free of charge for a whole year. After a year… Continue reading Using the AWS Free Usage Tier →