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EC2 Automation

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A new colleague and friend of mine, Cosmin and I were talking at lunch the other day about EC2. He has been playing with AWS and EC2 for longer than I have and had some great suggestions. One of them was to prefer automating EC2 Instance creation and setup with shell scripts over using Instance …

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EC2: Important Safety Tip

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As I was doing research and working to get my EC2 instance up and running, I ran across a thread (I can’t remember where) that outlined a potentially frustrating scenario. Fortunately I escaped learning this lesson in my normal mode and learned it from someone else’s mistake! There are two ways to shut down a …

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