Ever wanted to move an Amazon EC2 instance from one Availability Zone (AZ aka Region) to another? Maybe you want to quickly replicate your entire…
Moving / Copying an Amazon EC2 Instance from One Availability Zone (Region) to Another
AMI
AMI is the short name – abbreviation or acronym – for Amazon Machine Instance. This is effectively a copy of a complete instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with all the things you’ve put onto it, including, if you have, your web application and etc.
For this reason, AMIs are what make AWS really powerful as a cloud hosting provider. You can collect and store your own AMI of a complete web application, in order to quickly “spin up” new server instances, for example in a new Availability Zone.
Combined with Load Balancers, AMIs make for a speedy cluster based WordPress network, with lots of latency and resilience built in. Just right for our bigger WooCommerce clients, for example.
How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 Instance
Below are the commands required to setup FTP (well, FTPS in fact, and specifically not SFTP, which you can most easily use by adding your…
AWS EC2 Instance Won’t Stop
If you use a lot – or even just one – EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS), from time-to-time, you might find that an…
Updating Let’s Encrypt on Amazon EC2 – Resolve “zope.interface… No module named interface”
On AWS EC2 instances, sometimes we run into an issue or two, in particular, in dealing with Let’s Encrypt certification. To be frank, auto-renew has…
AWS AMI Let’s Encrypt Troubleshooting & Fixing “No module named interface”
This is a pretty technical post, about how to troubleshoot and fix a not-quite-renewing correctly lets encrypt certificate on AWS instances! Let’s Encrypt renewals patchy…
Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissions
If you want to allow someone else (like a contractor, or Silicon Dales) to access your AWS account to add CloudFront to act as a…