Setting Up Amazon EC2 server

Who am I?
Tahsin Hasan
Sr. software Engineer,
Tasawr Interactive.
[email_address]
Books - “Opencart 1.5 Template Design CookBook” and “Joomla 1.6 Mobile Development Beginners Guide” with Packt Publishers UK.
Website – tahSin’s gaRage (http://newdailyblog.blogspot.com).

Some Misconceptions
EC2 is expensive – False.
Only for large applications – False.
Fully commercial – False.
Instances are not preserved when shutdown – False.
EC2 requires a proprietary OS – False.

What is Amazon EC2?
“ Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.”- Amazon EC2 home page.

Why Amazon EC2?
Create, launch and terminate as needed.
Buy computing power by the hour.
Buy bandwidth by the GB.
Buy space by the GB/month.
Add a firewall, load balancer, monitoring etc with the click of a mouse.
Rent virtual computers and peripherals.
Get start with a pre-configured images.

EC2 Data Centers
Geographically dispersed-
US West (North CA).
US East (North VA).
EU (Ireland).
Asia pacific (Singapure).

Availability Zone

EC2 Instance Families
Standard – Small, Large, Extra Large.
Micro.
High-CPU – Medium, Extra Large.
High-Memory – Extra Large, Double Extra Large, Quadruple Extra Large.
Cluster Compute.
Cluster GPU.

Amazon EC2 Instance Types
Small – 1.7 GB memory, 160 GB storage.
Large – 7.5 GB memory, 850 GB storage.
Extra Large – 15 GB memory, 1690 GB storage.
Micro – 613 MB memory.
High-CPU Medium – 1.7 GB memory, 5 EC2 unit, 350 GB storage.
High-CPU Extra Large – 7 GB memory, 20 EC2 unit, 1690 GB storage.

Amazon EC2 Instance Types
High-Memory Extra Large – 17.1 GB memory, 480 GB instance.
High-Memory Double Extra Large – 34. GB.
High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large – 68.4.
Cluster Compute – 23 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 unit, 1690 GB storage.
Cluster GPU

Amazon EC2 Free Tier
Calculate each month usage for a year.
750 hours usage of micro instance and load balancing.
10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage.
15 GB bandwidth.

Getting Started with CLI
Setting the Java Home variable.
export JAVA_HOME=<PATH>.
Download .zip file from Amazon EC2 resource center.
export EC2_HOME=<path-to-tools>
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin

X.509 certificate
Create X.509 certificate.
Create a directory named .ec2 in the home dir.
Download the PEM-encoded certificate and private key file.

Import SSH Key Pair
Either by OpenSSH or AWS mgmt console.
ec2-import-keypair phpXpert-keypair --public-key-file mykey.ppk.
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=ImportKeyPair &KeyName=phpXpert-keypair &PublicKeyMaterial=base64_encode(public_key).

Generate SSH key with AWS
Create with Amazon mgmt console.
“ ec2-add-keypair phpXperts-keypair" returns the private key.
Save the private key in a file like “id_rsa-phpXpert-keypair” and set file permission.
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=CreateKeyPair &KeyName=gsg-keypair &...auth parameters…

Tell Who You Are?
$export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBZQ55CLO.pem
$export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBZQ55CLO.pem
$export EC2_URL=https://<service_endpoint>

Launch Instance

Launch an Instance: CLI
$ec2-run-instances ami-3ac33653 -k gsg-keypair
RESERVATION r-f25e6f9a 999988887777 default INSTANCE i-85b435ee ami-3ac33653 pending gsg-keypair 0 m1.small 2010-03-30T08:01:36+0000 monitoring-disabled ebs us-east-1a aki-407d9529
$ec2-describe-instances i-85b435ee RESERVATION r-f25e6f9a 999988887777 default INSTANCE i-85b435ee ami-3ac33653 ec2-67-202-28-13.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-39-00-78-93.compute-1.internal running gsg-keypair 0 m1.small 2010- 03-30T08:01:36+0000 us-east-1a aki-407d9529 monitoring-disabled 67.202.28.13 10.254.127.97 ebs BLOCKDEVICE /dev/sda1 vol-02a2a46b 2010-03-30T08:01:44.000Z

Launch an Instance: API
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=RunInstances &ImageId=ami-3ac33653 &MaxCount=1 &MinCount=1 &KeyName=gsg-keypair &Placement.AvailabilityZone=us-east-1a
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=DescribeInstances &InstanceId=i-2ba64342

Choose AMI

Community AMI
Alestic.com

Start/Stop Instances: API
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=StopInstances &InstanceId.1=i-10a64379 &...auth parameters...
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=StartInstances &InstanceId.1=i-10a64379 &...auth parameters...

Choosing Instance Types

Create a Key Pair

Choose Security Group

Amazon EC2 Console

Public DNS

Connect to Instance
ec2-get-console-output instance_id
ssh -i id_rsa-gsg-keypair root@ec2-67-202-51-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com

What about Security?

Security Groups

Security Group:CLI
$ec2-authorize default -p 22 -s your-local-system's-public-ip-ad dress/32 PERMISSION default ALLOWS tcp 22 22 FROM CIDR your- local-system's-public-ip-address/32
$ec2-authorize default -p 3389 -s your-local-system's-public-ip-ad dress/32 PERMISSION default ALLOWS tcp 3389 3389 FROM CIDR your-local-system's-public-ip-address/32
$ec2-authorize default -p 80 PERMISSION default ALLOWS tcp 80 80 FROM CIDR 0.0.0.0/0

Security Group: API
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress &GroupName=default &IpProtocol=tcp &FromPort=22 &ToPort=22 &CidrIp=your-local-system's-public-ip-address/32
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress &GroupName=default &IpProtocol=tcp &FromPort=3389 &ToPort=3389 &CidrIp=your-local-system's-public-ip-address/32
https://ec2.amazonaws.com/ ?Action=AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress &GroupName=default &IpProtocol=tcp &FromPort=80 &ToPort=80 &CidrIp=0.0.0.0/0

What is Elastic IP?
Static IP address.
Associated with your account, not instances.
It propagate instantly throughout the web.

Elastic IP

Terminate Instances

Start/Stop Instances with CLI
ec2-stop-instances i-10a64379
IMAGE i-10a64379 running stopping
ec2-start-instances i-10a64379
IMAGE i-10a64379 stopped pending

Tools
Elasticfox – Firefox addons.
AWS toolkit for Eclipse.

Questions?

Setting Up Amazon EC2 server

by Tahsin Hasan on Dec 18, 2011

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