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[Ghiora Drori]

Hi,
Correction, sorry but you are not up to date.
1) You can use your own kernel (This changed a few month ago, used to be
that you needed special permission to do this.)
    I am using mine on a significant number of instances. There are articles
on the internet explaining how:
    http://rich0gentoo.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/ec2-custom-kernels/

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.
    since they are simply just Linux root images.
    You then boot from the snapshot of the EBS drive and specify other
drives that are to be mounted as additional snapshots.
    Life on Amazon is much easier now then is was a couple of years ago.

   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
   drive and use EBS's created from it for modifications. Fairly east to do
with the Centos or Ubuntu public images.


  The snapshot images also boot faster since they are read into the EBS
drive when needed.

  I do this a lot so please do not tell it cannot be done :)

  Have fun.


2010/10/24 Etzion Bar-Noy <ezaton at tournament.org.il>

> With defined limitations. You can use *their* 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ez
>
> 2010/10/24 Tom Rosenfeld <trosenfeld at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
>> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 24, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Tom Rosenfeld wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> If you haven't already tried cloud computing, this is your chance to use
>>>> free for a year!
>>>> -tom
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Geoff
>>>
>>> --
>>> Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
>>> To help restaurants, as part of the "stimulus package", everyone must
>>> order dessert. As part of the socialized health plan, you are forbidden to
>>> eat it. :-)
>>>
>>> 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!
>>
>> -tom
>>
>>
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