How To SSH into EC2

SSH into EC2

If it has been a while since I’ve connected to my AWS Linux instance via ssh, I’ll sometimes find myself searching the web for these steps. I’m using a mac so these file locations apply to mac. If you need to connect to an existing EC2 and you have the .pem file (private key) If …

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Elastic Beanstalk Environment Variable Limit Workaround in Laravel

beanstalk hitting a ceiling

The Problem Elastic Beanstalk is a nice and easy way to get up and running with a scalable and highly available cloud platform but it has one very annoying down side. The total size of all your environment variables combined cannot exceed 4kb. I ran into this limit and had to find a solution. Prior …

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