AWS Cloud Usage Tips and Tricks

AWS Login With Root Password

First get the root of the instance under AWS:

1. First log in to the instance with pem;
2. Run: sudo passwd root, enter the password;
3. Run: su-, enter the password you just set to enter root;

Edit the SSH configuration file:

• vi / etc / ssh / sshd-config

2. Find PermitRootLogin, PasswordAuthentication, the following values ​​are set to yes:

3. Restart sshd after saving:

• service sshd restart

Then you can log in to AWS directly with root.

AWS Ping Test

cloudping - https://www.cloudping.info/

Suppress the logs

Get tons of logs from ec2net and dhclient in /var/log/messages

Sep 28 10:21:12 ip-10-10-0-50 ec2net: [get_meta] Trying to get http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/0a:61:94:ab:be:d8/local-ipv4s
Sep 28 10:21:12 ip-10-10-0-50 ec2net: [rewrite_aliases] Rewriting aliases of eth0
Sep 28 10:22:42 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 116310ms.
Sep 28 10:24:39 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 116080ms.
Sep 28 10:26:35 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 111110ms.
Sep 28 10:28:26 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 108130ms.
Sep 28 10:30:14 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 131480ms.
Sep 28 10:32:25 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 114870ms.
Sep 28 10:34:20 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 117480ms.
Sep 28 10:36:18 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 123780ms.
Sep 28 10:38:22 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 128670ms.
Sep 28 10:40:30 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 130680ms.
Sep 28 10:42:41 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 115920ms.
Sep 28 10:44:37 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 111720ms.
Sep 28 10:46:29 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 123980ms.
Sep 28 10:48:21 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2069]: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 10.10.0.1 port 67 (xid=0x7386b415)
Sep 28 10:48:21 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2069]: DHCPACK from 10.10.0.1 (xid=0x7386b415)
Sep 28 10:48:21 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2069]: bound to 10.10.0.50 -- renewal in 1459 seconds.
Sep 28 10:48:21 ip-10-10-0-50 ec2net: [get_meta] Trying to get http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/0a:61:94:ab:be:d8/local-ipv4s
Sep 28 10:48:21 ip-10-10-0-50 ec2net: [rewrite_aliases] Rewriting aliases of eth0
Sep 28 10:48:33 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 126500ms.
Sep 28 10:50:40 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 125460ms.
Sep 28 10:52:45 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 129090ms.
Sep 28 10:54:54 ip-10-10-0-50 dhclient[2165]: XMT: Solicit on eth0, interval 127890ms.

Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf file, and add following two lines after #### RULES ####

[root@ip-10-10-0-50 etc]# vi /etc/rsyslog.conf 

# rsyslog v5 configuration file

# For more information see /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-*/rsyslog_conf.html
# If you experience problems, see http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/troubleshoot.html

#### MODULES ####

$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)
$ModLoad imklog   # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)
#$ModLoad immark  # provides --MARK-- message capability

# Provides UDP syslog reception
#$ModLoad imudp
#$UDPServerRun 514

# Provides TCP syslog reception
#$ModLoad imtcp
#$InputTCPServerRun 514


#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####

# Use default timestamp format
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

# File syncing capability is disabled by default. This feature is usually not required,
# not useful and an extreme performance hit
#$ActionFileEnableSync on

#### RULES ####

:programname,isequal,"dhclient"  ~
:programname,isequal,"ec2net"    ~

# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
# kern.*                                  

After saved changes , restart the service with this command "service rsyslog restart"

References:

• AWS Free Tier 
• Setting up WordPress on EC2
• Migrating WordPress
• Connecting to EC2 via PuTTY
• Connect MySQL to EC2 via SSH tunnel
• Optimise Apache for WordPress
• Optimise Apache for EC2 small & micro instances