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I borrowed this script from Scott Bradley's wonderful blog "Provision and Bootstrap Windows EC2 Instances With Chef," making the following changes:

To make compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2, I added the following firewall rule to the powershell script section:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="WinRM in" protocol=TCP dir=in profile=any localport=5985 remoteip=any localip=any action=allow
Used knife.rb instead of using AWS API credentials
Added security-group-ids and subnet flags to provision to ec2 VPC

Deploy Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 14.04

Server: Nginx with Phusion Passenger

Ruby Version: 2.1.3

User System: deploy

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

	# Automated AMI Backups
	#
	# @author Robert Kozora <[email protected]>
	#
	# This script will search for all instances having a tag with "Backup" or "backup"
	# on it. As soon as we have the instances list, we loop through each instance
	# and create an AMI of it. Also, it will look for a "Retention" tag key which
	# will be used as a retention policy number in days. If there is no tag with
	# that name, it will use a 7 days default value for each AMI.
	#

	# Automated AMI and Snapshot Deletion
	#
	# @author Robert Kozora <[email protected]>
	#
	# This script will search for all instances having a tag with "Backup" or "backup"
	# on it. As soon as we have the instances list, we loop through each instance
	# and reference the AMIs of that instance. We check that the latest daily backup
	# succeeded then we store every image that's reached its DeleteOn tag's date for
	# deletion. We then loop through the AMIs, deregister them and remove all the
	# snapshots associated with that AMI.

	###############################################################################
	## Monit control file
	###############################################################################
	##
	## Comments begin with a '#' and extend through the end of the line. Keywords
	## are case insensitive. All path's MUST BE FULLY QUALIFIED, starting with '/'.
	##
	## Below you will find examples of some frequently used statements. For
	## information about the control file, a complete list of statements and
	## options please have a look in the monit manual.

	Copyright (c) 2015, Shahar Evron
	All rights reserved.

	Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
	are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

	1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
	list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

	2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048