ec2-ami

I would like to use the R package httr to access the EC2 services via their API. But I am a little bit unsure how to get started as it does not fall into the usual authentication format of "Oauth2.0" in which you have the usual: key, secret, token and signature system. I think EC2 uses the "signature version 2" method, but I am unclear as to how that works. Looking at the documentation that EC2 provides with regard to making query requests at http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-query-api.html I think I need the value for signature....but don't know how to get it I

I'm creating an AMI for a server with 100G files. It's been like an hour and it's still not finished. (The AMI still says pending) Is there something wrong with it? What should I do? Alright so at this moment this seems like a stupid question. But I was very worried during that time :-) Just to let other people know, this process could take very, very long. My 100 GB AMI takes like 2.5 hours to create and the progress bar jumps from 0 to 100 directly after that. So don't worry. I also noticed snapshots take a long time. I have a simple 10 GB t2.micro instance, and it sat on 0% for about 10

I am using AWS Java API RunInstance() to start a new EC2 instance from my custom AMI image. How do I pass environment variables to the new EC2 INSTANCE such as database url, AWS credentials etc. ? jcomeau_ictx http://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scripts explains how to do this with user-data. for gotchas about using Java see AmazonEC2 launch with userdata . note that I've seen mention that this doesn't work with Windows, only Unix. [update] more data on setting environment variables here: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=139744 [after much testing] for me, echoing the

This is a very basic Amazon EC2 question, but I'm stumped so here goes. I want to launch an Amazon EC2 instance and allow access to HTTP on ports 80 and 8888 from anywhere. So far I can't even allow the instance to connect to on those ports using its own IP address (but it will connect to localhost). I configured the "default" security group for HTTP using the standard HTTP option on the management console (and also SSH). I launched my instance in the default security group. I connected to the instance on SSH port 22 twice and in one window launch an HTTP server on port 80. In the other window

I'd like to copy the disk image of a running EC2 instance (grab the AMI) and import it into virtual box or eventually have it run using Vagrant. I saw that packer ( http://www.packer.io/ ) allows you to create AMI's and corresponding Vagrant boxes to work together, however the running instance I currently have has been running for over two years and would be difficult to replicate. I imagine that this issue is common in the devops community however have not found a solution in my research online. Are there any tools out there that let you accomplish this task? BillMan I just wanted to note