How to reduce memory footprint of t1.Micro Amazon AMI?

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2013-08
  • noobie79

    I recently launched (several tries) Amazon Linux AMI 2012.09 because of the 1 year free tier. However, its always running out of memory. How can I reduce the initial memory footprint of this AMI?

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    I've been trying to get my head around Amazon Web Services as a VPS provider. My understanding is a EC2 instance running Windows is basically a Windows VM, very similar to renting a VPS from a more traditional hosting provider.

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    If you use EBS volumes then you don't can create backups via snapshots which is very easy to do (just a single API call or via the aws console). You can also use an EBS-based windows AMI so the whole system would be stored on EBS.