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chrism2671
Asked: 2011-03-31 15:40:58 +0800 CST

What's the quickest way to convert a micro instance to a small instance on AWS EC2?

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It is (of course) an EBS backed instance; I would like to see what the impact of having increased CPU power would do for it. What's the easiest way?

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  1. The biggest caveat to this is that an m1.small is a 32-bit machine whereas a t1.micro is a 64-bit machine. Unless you're running a 32-bit AMI on the micro, you won't be able to upgrade to m1.small. You'll have to skip up to the next level where 64-bit is again supported.

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  3. Once you change the instance type by stoping the instance and changing instance type, reassociate your elastic IP to that instance. And then:

    you need to restart your mysqld and httpd.conf.

    sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

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