To create an Instance Store backed AMI, you will need the ec2-ami-tools to bundle the volume and upload it to S3, then the ec2-api-tools in order to register the image.

To create an EBS backed AMI, you need a volume snapshot and you need to register the image. You can use the command CreateImage which will do both steps for you, or you can do it yourself with the CreateSnapshot and RegisterImage commands.

The AWS CloudFormation Command Line Tools are used for setting up and administrating the Amazon CloudFormation

The Amazon ElastiCache Command Line Toolkit is used for setting up and administrating the Amazon ElastiCache

Load average can be a tricky measure of a server’s performance. This article hopes to provide some insight as to what all the various numbers you can find on “top” and other Linux programs mean. This article also explains virtualized machine statistics that don’t normally appear on a standard Linux top listing.