EC2 security access when working with ELB

As you know /or not, when working with ELB the security group on the Amazon ec2 instances will not catch the real IP, only the internal ELB ip.

So, how can we prevent this Security hole?

EC2 Instance backup - auto backup for prod

Did you ever wonder how to automatically create a backup to only your prod (or some other) environment on Amazon ec2?

Well this is easy, all you need to do is to add a tag to the instances and set a cron job.

Copy the following script to your manage machine and replace the EC2 certs path ….. with your