EC2 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″
Then 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
just choose a JumpBox AMI virtual machine software appliance and run it !
Finally check your credit card bill the following month !