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Questions tagged [amazon-aws]
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How can I tell how big my Amazon RDS database (MySQL) is?
I have a MySQL database for my website hosted on Amazon AWS using RDS. It has 5GB of storage available to it. How can I tell how big the data in it actually is (and therefore how much of the 5GB quota I have left)?
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How to optimize the load time of initial connection and SSL handshake phase of a web page on a 3G network?
My website www.example.com(SSL enabled) is hosted on Amazon EC2 shared hosting. It loads faster (load time < 2 seconds) on a wifi/broadband connection. Issue is on 3G network in mobile**(H mode and not H+ mode)**. Initiate a connection phase and SSL…
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Change Region For An Amazon RDS Instance
I am using AWS free tier. While launching EC2 instance and RDS instance, I didn't choose any specific region. So, randomly I was assigned two different region for ec2 and rds. Later, after launching the application, I came to realize that, being…
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What kind of website can be run on AWS for 10, 100, 1 thousand, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, 1 million dollars per month?
The AWS pricing is quite complicated. I am aware that every website is different and require different types of AWS services.
But is there a simple way to say that for 10$ per month you can run website on AWS, that has X unique users, Y data…
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Is Amazon the cheapest cloud provider?
On AWS, bandwidth costs as little as $0.08 per GB and storage costs as little as $0.055 per GB. Are there any providers that charge less? These numbers end up being very costly for a web site that hosts pictures and videos, so I'm looking for…
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Does Amazon's RDS Multi-AZ deployment cost twice as much as the normal cost of a single instance?
It's not totally clear based on Amazon's provided documentation. Intuitively, it feels like it'd cost twice as much as a normal RDS instance for a two-zone deployment; does anyone here have experience with this, and could confirm or disconfirm that?
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Is it possible to show AWS CloudWatch metrics graphs on your own dashboard webpage?
Is it possible to show AWS CloudWatch metrics graphs on your own dashboard webpage?
It would save the hassle of logging into the AWS console when something weird is going on.
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HTTP2 is enabled and working, but PHP $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] still says "HTTP/1.1"
I've been migrating to a new host (AWS Lightsail with a Ubuntu instance) and while everything is working just fine I'm running into a quirk that I can't quite figure out.
I've enabled HTTP2 on my virtual server and confirmed that files are using…
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What are the benefits of requiring HTTPS between AWS CloudFront and the origin server?
I am hosting a website on Amazon CloudFront and we've recently updated the distribution to require HTTPS between CloudFront and viewers. With the introduction of AWS Certificate Manager and the viability of SNI, this move is simple and cheap. The…
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Pointing Namecheap domain to AWS S3 static website with HSTS .dev TLD
I recently bough a domain with Namecheap with the intention to point it to an AWS S3 static site. My problem is that putting 'www.mydomain.dev' and 'mydomain.dev' into the address bar leads me to an infinite "Connecting.." loop in Chrome and…
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How do I make my website available via IPV6 under an AWS load balancer?
What do I need to do to make my website available under IPV6? My site is running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) behind a load balancer. I just saw that Amazon has announced support elastic load balancers via IPV6.
What settings do I need to enable…
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How to setup CloudFlare Origin CA with a wordpress server hosted on Amazon AWS?
Many might know that recently CloudFlare introduced something really amazing for everyone with a domain: CloudFlare Origin CA.
I have a WordPress website hosted on Amazon AWS, and what I initially wanted to do is run my whole website on HTTPS…
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Why am I getting bot hits from compute-1.amazonaws.com?
I have a WordPress website with AWS on use, namely the Cloudfront service, to serve CSS, images and JS from the cloud.
Lately, I noticed a lot of hits from bots coming from :
IP: 54.236.71.87 Hostname: ec2-54-236-71-87.compute-1.amazonaws.com
IP:…
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10 megabyte gzip limit in AWS Cloudfront?
My website is a static blog of visualizations and I am serving it via AWS S3.
Some of the visualizations use large CSVs, ranging from 1 megabytes to 20 megabytes.
I've set up Cloudfront to automatically gzip files, but for some reason there is a…
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Email messages sent from AWS EC2 are getting marked as spam
I have setup my website on AWS which is built in yii2 PHP.
Now here I am using default PHP mail which I purchased from GoDaddy. And I have pointed the domain name to AWS using my elastic IP using an A record on GoDaddy.
Now when I am sending mails…
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