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AutoScale – example

The following is my favorite example for AutoScaling based on CPU utlization Notes: I prefer the cool down to be 10 minutes to let the started instance enough time to initilize Make sure that the specified AZ are enabled in ELB, oterwize health check will fail How to: Step 1: as-create-launch-config AS-CONF-[name] –image-id [ami-id] –instance-type …

EC2 ELB complains about “Invalid Private Key”

When setting up SSL on ELB you may get an error “Error: Invalid Private Key” this happens because your SSL private key is in RSA format while ELB expects it in PEM format. All you need is to convert your existing key: openssl rsa -in my_ssl.key -outform PEM -out my_ssl.key.pem As always, Enjoy !

Export SSL certificate from Windows to AWS ELB

Move or copy an SSL certificate from a Windows server to an Apache server If you have multiple servers that need to use the same SSL certificate, such as in a load-balancer environment or using a wildcard or UC SSL certificates, you can export the certificate from the Windows certificate store to .pfx file and then convert the file to individual …