CentOS Amazon Machine Image?
I am totally new to AWS. There was a posting here ~ a year ago making claims about setting up a CentOS image on AWS.
I have created a free AWS account and am looking at the available images.
None are named CentOS. There is a Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 and Amazon’s own Linux and SUSE, Ubuntu, but I don’t find CentOS.
This is a learning endeavor. I was thinking to first set up a BIND
slave for my domain. Then move on to a http image, then work with MariaDB. All to see what I can do with AWS that is familiar to what I
do on my own servers.
Any pointers greatly appreciated.
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… https://www.CentOS.org/
-> Get CentOS
https://www.CentOS.org/download/
… Need a Cloud or Container Image?
-> Amazon Web Services https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile?id=16cb8b03-256e-4dde-8f34-1b0f377efe89
Does that help ?
Cheers
Tru
Tru, it is getting me closer.
It’s an AMI (Amazon Machine Image). You launch a new EC2 instance and in the setup you can search for and choose the CentOS one. It wasn’t in the first search page for me, I had to click further into “AWS Marketplace” to find it. AWS bills per hour (though some newer AWS stuff is moving to per-second). In the free tier you get 750 hours of t2.micro run time for free. A typical month is 744 hours. You can split that up however you want. Run 75 instances for 10 hours each? Sure. Run 750 instances for 1 hour each? Sure. AWS billing can get complex, but be aware that you can be charged for run time of your instance(s), additional storage space, bandwidth overages, etc. There isn’t much to worry about if you are being reasonable but TANSTAAFL so read through https://aws.amazon.com/free/ and understand what the limitations are.
I am attempting to learn AWS to have that in my ‘toolbox’. For CentOS
work I have my armv7 boxen:
http://www.htt-consult.com/arm.html
But I wanted to see if I could reasonably work with AWS as an alternative.
More to learn.