AWS autoscalers, to me at least, are the service that standout as being one of the most “Elastic-y” in the Elastic offerings from AWS. They can be configured to automatically expand and shrink on demand. Which by most definitions is pretty elastic. Autoscalers can be configured to fire up more ec2 compute instances when demand […]
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Retrieve Your IAM Security Credentials from an EC2 Instance from the Command Line
If you are planning to use other AWS resources from your EC2 Instances, then you will generally have to provide a credential set to authenticate. One good method of granting authentication to your EC2 instance is through the IAM role system. This allows applications or scripts to access EC2 resources without the need to hardcode* […]
Delete Pyrax Cloud Block Storage Volumes Snapshots Older than N days
This very simple example shows you how to delete snapshots taken of rackspace cloud volumes older than N days. In this example N days will be 7 days. This example makes the following assumptions: -you have a Pyrax installed -you have your Rackspace API credentials key. -you know your Rackspace volume uid – which looks […]
Snapshot Rackspace CBS volume with Python Pyrax
This very simple example shows you how to take a snapshot of a Rackpace cloud volume. This document makes the following assumptions: -you have a Pyrax installed -you have your Rackspace API credentials key. -you know your Rackspace volume uid – which looks like this: 56568786-4659-67575-9ab3-6767968 1. Add the pyrax import 1 import pyraximport pyrax […]