What is difference between Lightsail and EC2? [closed]
2022-02-14
Question Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. </div> Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 4 years ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 1 year ago and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were not resolved Improve this question Recently Amazon launched Lightsail. Is there any difference between them?…
What is the best way to pass AWS credentials to a Docker container?
2022-02-14
Question I am running docker-container on Amazon EC2. Currently I have added AWS Credentials to Dockerfile. Could you please let me know the best way to do this? Answer A lot has changed in Docker since this question was asked, so here's an attempt at an updated answer. First, specifically with AWS credentials on containers already running inside of the cloud, using IAM roles as Vor suggests is a really good option.…
What is the difference between Amazon ECS and Amazon EC2?
2022-02-14
Question I'm just getting started on AWS EC2. I understand that EC2 is like a remote computer where I can do pretty much everything I want. Then I found out about ECS. I know it uses Docker, but I'm confused about the relationship between these two. Is ECS just a Docker install in EC2? If I already have an EC2 and I start an ECS, does it mean I have two instances?…
What is the difference between Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS?
2022-02-14
Question When would I use SNS versus SQS, and why are they always coupled together? Answer SNS is a distributed publish-subscribe system. Messages are pushed to subscribers as and when they are sent by publishers to SNS. SQS is distributed queuing system. Messages are not pushed to receivers. Receivers have to poll or pull messages from SQS. Messages can't be received by multiple receivers at the same time. Any one receiver can receive a message, process and delete it.…
When to use Amazon Cloudfront or S3
2022-02-14
Question Are there use cases that lend themselves better to Amazon cloudfront over s3 or the other way around? I'm trying to understand the difference between the 2 through examples. Answer Amazon S3 is designed for large-capacity, low-cost file storage in one specific geographical region.* The storage and bandwidth costs are quite low. Amazon CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) which proxies and caches web data at edge locations as close to users as possible.…
Why do people use Heroku when AWS is present? What distinguishes Heroku from AWS? [closed]
2022-02-14
Question Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. </div> Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question I'm a beginner RoR programmer who's planning to deploy my app using Heroku. Word from my other advisor friends says that Heroku is really easy, good to use. The only problem is that I still have no idea what Heroku does.…
How do I fix "remote: fatal error in commit_refs" errors trying to push with Git?
2022-02-12
Question When I try to push to master branch that is hosted on https://github.com I get: remote: fatal error in commit_refs How can I solve this? Answer In my case, GitHub was down by the time I was trying to push. Just check https://www.githubstatus.com to know about GitHub site status. When it's up you'll be able to push.