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AWS Auto-Scaling and ELB with Reliable Root Domain Handling

January 24, 2011

Update May 2011: Now that AWS Route 53 can be used to allow an ELB to host a domain zone apex, the technique described here is no longer necessary. Cool, but not necessary. Someone really has to implement this. I’ve had this draft sitting around ever since AWS announced support for improved CloudWatch alerts and [...]

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Using AWS Route 53 to Keep Track of EC2 Instances

December 22, 2010

This article is a guest post by Guy Rosen, CEO of Onavo and author of the Jack of All Clouds blog. Guy was one of the first people to produce hard numbers on cloud adoption for site hosting, and he continues to publish regular updates to this research in his State of the Cloud series. [...]

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Alternatives to Elastic IPs for EC2 Name Resolution

September 27, 2009

How can you handle DNS lookups in EC2 without going crazy each time a resource’s IP address changes? One solution is to use an Elastic IP, a stable IP address that can be remapped to different instances, but Elastic IPs are not appropriate for all situations. This article explores the various methods of managing name [...]

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