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user2211801
user2211801

Reputation: 43

AWS EC2 test server

I want to do some test on a server we have on Amazon Cloud, I found some pretty good docs regarding the process to clone the prod server like this one: http://www.misterjensen.com/site/how-to-clone-an-amazon-web-services-ec2-instance/

But my main concern is that if I clone the server and boot it my app will start to mess with my other prod servers. One way could be to quickly log on the server to stop the app but it is not very clean..

Is there any other way to avoid the clone server to reach other server ? Unfortunately it is not like my VMware infra where I can simply disconnect the network and use the console to connect..

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 739

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269841

If your application connects with other servers that are in the same network (VPC), then the simplest solution is to launch your 'cloned' server in a different VPC.

If your application connects with AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon SQS, then you will need to give your server different credentials that do not have access to the production resources of these services. Credentials are assigned to an Amazon EC2 instance via the Role parameter at startup, so created a different Role (without access to production resources) and assign it when launching the 'clone'.

Upvotes: 1

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