Amazon EC2 instance not starting
While working on a failed EC2 (ebs backed) instance recently, we were presented with an instance that would not start after reboot or stop/start. tl;dr: Create a snapshot of the existing EBS vol; remount and edit etc/fstab; re-attach and start the instance.
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“Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers”, according to to Amazon. All EC2 instances are sold based on hourly usage and instance type. Each instances type consists of a certain number of EC2 Compute [...]
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