Hi,<br>Correction, sorry but you are not up to date.<br>1) You can use your own kernel (This changed a few month ago, used to be that you needed special permission to do this.)<br> I am using mine on a significant number of instances. There are articles on the internet explaining how:<br>
<a href="http://rich0gentoo.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/ec2-custom-kernels/">http://rich0gentoo.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/ec2-custom-kernels/</a><br><br>2) You should create your own images on EBS drives and use snapshots from the images to boot. It is very easy to create new ones. <br>
since they are simply just Linux root images.<br> You then boot from the snapshot of the EBS drive and specify other drives that are to be mounted as additional snapshots.<br> Life on Amazon is much easier now then is was a couple of years ago.<br>
<br> If you boot an existing public image (with EBS as root you can stop it with ec2-stop and take a snapshot of the root<br> drive and use EBS's created from it for modifications. Fairly east to do with the Centos or Ubuntu public images.<br>
<br> <br> The snapshot images also boot faster since they are read into the EBS drive when needed.<br><br> I do this a lot so please do not tell it cannot be done :)<br><br> Have fun.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/10/24 Etzion Bar-Noy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ezaton@tournament.org.il">ezaton@tournament.org.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">With defined limitations. You can use <u>their</u> kernel and initrd, or some others supplied, but you cannot supply your own. Also - adding custom OS selections is not trivial. If not already created by someone else (with his/hers S3 space to store that image), you might find yourself lacking the right image for your needs.<div>
<br></div><div>That said, almost anything can be done using the existing, limited, images supplied by Amazon. Add to that the images supplied by users, and you will be just fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Ez<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Tom Rosenfeld wrote:<br>
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If you haven't already tried cloud computing, this is your chance to use free for a year!<br>
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Does this have to be a web server? Can one use it for an Asterisk or other SIP relay or a private HTTP or SOCKS proxy?<br>
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<br></font></blockquote></div><div>No, it does not have to be a web server. Actually, the point of Amazon is that you can install any OS and any software you like!<br><br>-tom<br> <br></div></div><br></div>
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