Amazon EC2 Super Quick Start

sign up

generate cert & private key

download amazon ec2 tools into ~/ec2

export environment variables

export EC2_HOME=~/ec2
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_15
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/ec2/pk.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/ec2/cert.pem
export EC2_JVM_ARGS=

“-Dhttps.proxyHost=my.proxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080″

run amazon ec2 describe images utility

./bin/ec2-describe-images -a

you’ll see a list of over 600 AMIs including the following jumpboxs

IMAGE   ami-70ab4f19    jumpbox-amis/bugzilla-1.1.0.manifest.xml
IMAGE   ami-71ab4f18    jumpbox-amis/mediawiki-1.1.0.manifest.xml
IMAGE   ami-6aac4803    jumpbox-amis/movabletype-1.1.0.manifest.xml
IMAGE   ami-0eb45067    jumpbox-amis/wordpress-1.1.0.manifest.xml

choose an AMI virtual machine software appliance

then run it !

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