I am planning to create virtual server(Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Web on Windows Server 2019) in AWS but the costing is too high for me, to reduce the price I wanted to stop my virtual server automatically for some hours by using other AWS service.
How can I shutdown the virtual server?
Will I be able to shutdown it?
How AMI and EC2 are different in nature ?
After searching by hours I found that EC2 and RDS can be shutdown automatically but didn't find any article related to that.
Link for Virtual Server I want to created :
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-urbgwl6rh6cuu?sr=0-1&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa
Link for help:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/terminating-instances.html
To terminate an instance using the console
Before you terminate an instance, verify that you won't lose any data by checking that your Amazon EBS volumes won't be deleted on termination and that you've copied any data that you need from your instance store volumes to persistent storage, such as Amazon EBS or Amazon S3.
Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
In the navigation pane, choose Instances.
Select the instance, and choose Instance state, Terminate instance.
Choose Terminate when prompted for confirmation.
Yes
The EC2 is used for creating the virtual server instance. The AMI is the EC2 virtual machines image. ECS provides container services such as docker and the AWS lambda is used to run the code without a server.
You can learn more about the differences in this link
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I have lunched AWS linus2 AMI and created database and setupAjax/ LAMP through puTTY web page in browser.Now I want to partition the application so that application itself is on one instance and the database resides on a database instance on ec2?
A typical architecture on AWS is:
An Amazon EC2 instance with the application, placed in a Public Subnet
An Amazon RDS database
The application on the EC2 instance can connect to the Amazon RDS database. The benefit of this architecture is that the EC2 instance can be updated and even replaced without impacting data stored in the database. Plus, if your application later grows to multiple EC2 instances, they can all communicate with the database.
Using an Amazon RDS database is preferable to running your own database on an Amazon EC2 instance because AWS takes care of deployment, updates and backups.
I am selling a software that runs on EC2 instances. It creates an instances, performs the job and terminates.
A client is interested in my software but he needs to run it in his AWS environment.
Is there a way I can prevent anyone to connect SSH, web terminal, etc. to the running EC2 instance?
(The instance must be connected to internet and will be in a VPC)
I have read that I can disable Session Manager.
Thanks
Other than running this on AWS account customer does not have access to, it will be very tricky to accomplish this.
Even when you create an instance without keys, or do not handle keys to the customer, they will be able (given sufficient permissions), to create AMI from that server and choose different key during provisioning.
I am using a AWS console which show a running instance but when I check the storage in S3 there are no files in it. I have checked all the other storage options but unable to find any files. I need to check that which website is hosted on this instance. What can i do?
Moreover, I do not have .pem of the instance
I am working on a client website and we have a doubt that one of our website is hosted on AWS. We want to migrate that website from AWS to another host.
Please guide what is the best way to do this?
Thanks
Amazon EC2 uses Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes for its file system, not S3. So if the web site is hosted by an EC2 instance, the files will most likely be stored on an EBS volume. To get access, you will probably need to log in to the instance using SSH or the AWS Session Manager. Alternatively, you can try and attach the volume to a different EC2 instance that you have access to.
Firstly S3 is for object storage, the instance runs off block storage using EBS and is where the file structure is located. Unless a job exists to manually copy content to S3 you will not find it there.
There are a few options you can perform to gain access:
You can try connecting using Sessions Manager assuming that the SSM Agent is running on the host.
You can try using instance connect if it is setup, this will allow you to use an SSH terminal by specifying a temporary pem.
You can create an AMI of the server and then launch a new instance from this AMI (the server will be running as if it is the server that you took the AMI from so be aware services will be running).
You can take a EBS snapshot of the server and attempt to launch a new volume from this. You would then mount it to a host.
Be aware that if this is a Windows host, connecting via regular RDP will require the Windows password of the host. If this is the case you will need to follow these instructions.
Recently I started to use Azure.
In Azure, I created Resources Group, Virtual Network, Availability Set and Virtual Machine.
Then I connected VM using RDP
Same way, I want to create and connect VM in AWS.
Please let me know, what steps I need to follow.
Virtual Machines on AWS are provided by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service, more commonly known as Amazon EC2. Individual VMs are referred to as instances. Thus, the terminology to seek is "Amazon EC2 instance".
There are many ways to launch an Amazon EC2 instance, such as using a web interface, making an API call or using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI).
See: Launch Your Instance - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
To launch an instance from the EC2 management console, click Launch instance and provide the desired configuration.
See: Launching an Instance Using the Launch Instance Wizard - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
I want to remove VPS Instance in AWS and it's RDS.How to remove the both services in my account.
Your question is confusing because the title mentions VPS, while your question mentions VPC and RDS. So, here's some definitions:
An Amazon EC2 instance is a virtual machine that runs in the AWS cloud. Some people might refer to a virtual machine as a Virtual Private Server (VPS), but within AWS the term VPS is only really used with a virtual machine provisioned via Amazon Lightsail.
An Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a virtual network in which resources (eg Amazon EC2 instances can be created). There is a Default VPC provided in an AWS account that should not (in general) be deleted.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides fully-managed database instances for SQL databases such as SQL Server, My SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
If you wish to remove an Amazon RDS instance, go to the RDS management console, select the instance, then in the Instance Actions menu select Delete.
See: Deleting a DB Instance
If you wish to remove an Amazon EC2 instance, go to the EC2 management console, select the instance, then go to the Actions menu and select Instance State -> Terminate.
See: Terminate Your Instance
I do not recommend that you delete your VPC unless you created it yourself.