Booted First EC2 Image
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 8:10 AM, Fri 15 Sep 06
Filed under: Xen
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I did some (very basic) testing of Amazon’s EC2 tools on Gentoo last night. I had no trouble starting or stopping instances, generating keypairs, monitoring instances, or listing the images available on S3. Total cost of last night’s testing was 11 cents US.
Next step is to get a simple ebuild for the EC2 tools done and into Portage. So far, their only DEP is sun-jdk-1.5. I plan on putting them into /opt/ec2-api-tools, and the package will be called app-admin/ec2-api-tools.
Things Learned About EC2
- For computing on demand, EC2 is cheap.
- Although the docs say that it takes minutes to start a virtual machine, I thought they’d done the usual thing of just putting that in there to cover themselves; I thought (especially at the limited beta stage) that a machine would come up in under a minute. Boy was I wrong
. I had time to go and make a fresh brew. EC2 looks fine for computing-on-demand in the traditional meaning … but it’ll be an interesting challenge to use it (say) for dynamically increasing webserver capacity.
Things Added To The TODO List
- Create the app-admin/ec2-api-tools package
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January 15th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Hello,
How did your progress go with getting a custom gentoo image. I recently received access to ec2 and decidd to roll my own gentoo image. I’ve used gentoo quite a bit for beowulf clustering and servers so thought the it would be ideal, however I have yet to log into my own ec2 gentoo image. I can get the gentoo image to boot, but can’t get into it. If you have any pointers on how you got this to work, I’d love to know.
Thanks,
Michael
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