You can create an Amazon Machine Image or AMI for your existing EC2 instance. The AMI will allow you to launch a fresh EC2 instance using the AMI as a template. You can also share the AMI with other AWS accounts.
Step 1
To get started, it is best practise to stop your instance before you start. So right click your instance and click stop
Step 2
When the instance has stopped, right click it again, click image and then create Image
Step 3
Give your Image a name, a description and then click create Image
Step 4
In the screen that appears click the ami ID.
Step 5
You will now see your image creation as pending.
Step 6
Once the ami is marked as available you can then launch it as an EC2 instance.
When you are searching for a certain string in multiple files the last thing you want to do is to open each file individually and change each string one by one in each file. Notepad++ allows you to search and replace in multiple files are once.
Step 1
First open Notepad++ and press ctrl + F to open the find screen, then click find in files.
Step 2
In the screen that appears enter the string you want to find, the what you want to replace it with. Leave the filters as the default and then in directory enter the path where you want to implement the find and replace. When ready click Replace in files
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Step 3
Click ok to allow the replace to take place.
You should then see a message that indicates how many occurrences were replaced.
A virtual private cloud (VPC) is an on-demand configurable pool of shared computing resources allocated within a public cloud environment, providing a certain level of isolation between the different organizations (denoted as users hereafter) using the resources. The isolation between one VPC user and all other users of the same cloud (other VPC users as well as other public cloud users) is achieved normally through allocation of a private IP subnet and a virtual communication construct (such as a VLAN or a set of encrypted communication channels) per user
In this tutorial we will show you how to create a VPC in AWS with a public and private subnet.
Step 1
Log into the aws console, click services and then VPC.
Step 2
Next click Elastic Ips on the left hand side
Step 3
Click to allocate new address.
Step 4
Click allocate and then close.
Step 5
Click VPC Dashboad in the upper left to go back to the VPC dashboard.
Step 6
Click launch VPC Wizard
Step 7
Click VPC with Public and Private Subnets and click select.
Step 8
Enter values relevant to you and then click create VPC
After you click create you should see the VPC creating, note, it may take several minutes for the NAT gateway to create.
You should then see a message that states the VPC is created.
Windows Server 2016 is a server operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, developed concurrently with Windows 10.
This tutorial will show you how to change the hostname on windows server 2016.
Step One.
Click the start menu and then click Server Manager.
Step Two.
Click local server and then your computer name.
Step Three
Click Change
Step Four
Enter a computer name and then click OK
Step Five
Click OK
Step Six
Restart your computer and when the server restarts you will see that your hostname will be changed.
MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.
After you install MariaDB you log in using the following command:
mysql -u root -p
You may notice that you don’t get prompted for a password. In order to correct this you will need to run the following :
Step 1
SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@’localhost’ = PASSWORD(‘yourPassword’);
Step 2
UPDATE mysql.user SET plugin = ‘ ‘ WHERE user = ‘root’ AND host = ‘localhost’
Step 3
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Step 4
exit
Step 5
Run mysql -u root -p You will now need your password to log in.
“MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL. Development is led by some of the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle Corporation”
This short MariaDB tutorial will show you how to check the version of MariaDB you are running. We are running MariaDB on CentOS 7 but the process should be much the same for other operating systems.
Step 1
Log into your MariaDB instance, in our case we log in using the command:
mysql -u root -p
Step 2
After you log in you can see your version in the welcome text – highlighted in the screen-grab below:
Step 3
If you cannot see your version here you can also run the following command to see it:
SELECT VERSION();
A full video tutorial on the process can be found here:
This AWS tutorial will show you how to create a S3 bucket on AWS.
“Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a “simple storage service” offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. Simply, Amazon S3 provides a web interface to easily store and retrieve data safely, in any amount, at any time, from anywhere, at a low cost. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its global e-commerce network.”
Step 1
Log into you AWS account click services and then s3
Step 2
In the screen that appears click create bucket
Step 3
Give your bucket a unique name (It most be unique across all of AWS) then click Create in the lower left.
Step 4
You should now see your bucket, click it to access it.
Step 5
Click upload, to add a file.
Step 6
Click add file & navigate to a file on your machine to upload.
By default Windows Server 2016 disables Remote Desktop Connections (RDP) to the server. If you wish to RDP to the server you will need to enable it first. This tutorial will show you how to enable RDP on windows server 2016.
Step 1
Click the start button and then Server Manager.
Step 2
Then click on Local server and where it says Remote Desktop click on the Disabled.
Step 3
Click to Allow remote connections to the computer and then click Apply and OK.
You will now be able to RDP into your server. A full video tutorial can be found here:
This tutorial will show you how to create a CentOS 7 instance on AWS. We assume that you already have you AWS account created and that you are logged in already.
Step 1
Click Services and then EC2
Step 2
Click Launch Instance
Step 3
Click AWS Marketplace
Search for CentOS
Select the top result – CentOS7
Step 4
Click Continue
Step 5
Select your machine type and click Next Configure Instance details. In our case we will select the t2.micro instance as it is free tier eligible.
Step 6
Change Auto-assign public IP to Enable and click Next: Add storage.
Step 7
Leave the defaults and click Next:Add Tags
Step 8
Click Next: Configure Security Group
Step 9
Click review and Launch.
Step 10
Review your settings and then click Launch.
Step 11
In the drop down menu select create a new key pair, give the key pair a name and Download the Key Pair, then click launch Instances.
Step 12
Click your instance ID to see the instance.
You should now see your instance.
Step 13
To connect to our instance we will need to convert the key we downloaded, to do so we will use putty and puttygen they can be downloaded form here: https://www.putty.org/
Open puttygen and click Load
Step 14
Navigate to where you downloaded your key, click all files, click on your key and click open.
Step 15
Now click Save Private key, when prompted click yes you want to save without a passphrase.
Step 16
Now open putty and enter your public IP into the host name or IP address field, then expand SSH on the left had side.
Step 17
Click auth and then browse, navigate to where you saved your key and select it.
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