| 6 Jan 2025 |
 commiterate | AWS services themselves use a really small subset of AWS services which are pretty reliable | 19:54:38 |
 Arian | I had the pleasure of working with Amazon Marketplace Services team in my first job | 19:54:53 |
| commiterate | most services are literally just 1 simple VPC and some NLB + EC2 instances or Lambda functions + API Gateway | 19:55:08 |
| Arian | The API involved uploading templated Excel sheets with SOAP | 19:55:26 |
| Arian | I love how Bezos went: y'all are APIs now and that team looked at Excel and went "i guess you're an RPC format now" | 19:56:33 |
| commiterate | well, all the office formats are really just XML under the hood so... | 19:57:01 |
| Arian | (i was helping dutch retailers put their products on Amazon) | 19:57:21 |
| Arian | Funnily enough Amazon never really caught on in NL even to date. Local competitors are way more successful | 19:57:41 |
| commiterate | I don't think they've been particularly successful outside the US | 19:58:14 |
| Arian | They're succesful here in Germany for sure. | 19:58:34 |
| commiterate | isn't Germany one of the few succesful EU marketplaces? IIRC a bunch of other EU countries have to order through Amazon Germany and deliver across borders (e.g. Ireland) | 19:59:22 |
| Arian | Yeh basically before Amazon NL was a thing i would order from Amazon UK or Amazon DE | 19:59:52 |
| Arian | And Ireland cant order from Amazon UK anymore obviously... | 20:00:20 |
| Arian | So I guess they use Germany now :') | 20:00:32 |
| commiterate | I don't even know if going through Amazon UK was ever attractive from a GBP vs. EUR markup perspective | 20:01:04 |
| Arian | For some weird obscure shit it was. E.g. anime. No idea why. But anime cheaper in the UK | 20:01:40 |
| Arian | In Germany you can only get German dubs for reasonable prices | 20:01:53 |
| commiterate | huh | 20:01:54 |
| commiterate | probably some weird licensing + redistribution shenanigans the media industry is rife with | 20:02:34 |
| Arian | Yeh I think the German dubs are expensive and they don't import the English dubs which have a way bigger market | 20:03:25 |
| 20 Jan 2025 |
|  Jaco joined the room. | 18:52:53 |
| Jaco | 
Download image.png | 18:55:06 |
| Jaco | Hi guys, I tried getting nixos running under Africa region Cape town, in aws ec2 but keep on running into it prompting for a password after it started up -
as indicated here:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Install_NixOS_on_Amazon_EC2#
As far as I could understand if I gave via terraform the ssh public key it should allow me to ssh into it without issues ?
| 18:55:57 |
| Jaco | The screenshot I sent is the Serial terminal also asking for a password and the ssh session does exactly the same | 18:56:56 |
| Jaco | 
Download image.png | 19:00:59 |
| Jaco | This is the text I am refering to in the wiki above:
"SSH Asks For Password
When connecting to a newly launched EC2 instance via SSH, it may ask for a password. This seems to be because the amazon-init systemd service is still reading user data. Back out of the current SSH attempt and try again in a few minutes. " | 19:01:52 |
| Jaco | Any advice maybe as to what I can do to get this running/logged in ? Maybe I there are additional details I might be missing regarding to aws nixos via terraform ? | 19:31:52 |
| Arian | No should just work | 19:58:19 |
| Arian | We have a bug in amazon-init sometimes crashes if you have dual stack | 19:58:35 |
| Arian | You should log in through ssh. Not the console | 19:59:06 |
