AWS EC2 / RDS Pricing and Performance

Performance testing with InfluxDB + Grafana + Telegraf, Part 2

Previously I ran my performance test in a local test environment. However, the actual server should run in the Amazon EC2 cloud on one of the free tier micro instances (yes, I am cheap but it is more of a hobby project bwaabwaa.. 🙂 ). So I installed the server on my EC2 micro instance […]

Configuring EC2 instance connection firewall rules within the VPC (security groups)

OK, again with them Minecraft servers. This time I already had a bunch of them up and running on different free tier instances on EC2. Now I wanted to add a database and connect some of the server plugins to this. The DB should run in its own EC2 instance and the Minecraft servers on […]

Updating configuration files for EC2 dynamic IP’s

Needed to connect some of the EC2 instances running my kids Minecraft servers. Problem is, I am cheap and run a bunch of the free tier instances. I need to stop and start the instances all the time to save on the hosting costs. This results in all of them getting new IP addresses all […]