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AWS EC2 Linux: Enable SSH password logon

Posted on February 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Amazon AWS EC2 instances are by default secured with ssh certificates. This is great for security until you need to provide a UAT duplicate for an external user or developer. You don’t want to share your certificate with them and setting up a new one is more work than this quick fix. The security isn’t […]

Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Swapfile

Posted on September 4, 2014 5 Comments

The Amazon EC2 Linux instances comes without swap. Sooner or later this will be a problem with service hangups or crashes as a result because you run out of memory. I found a lot of instructions on the web about how to add a swap file but no one takes the storage into concern and you may […]