Re: Amazon free to new customers!

[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 

> 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 
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
>> geoffreymendel...@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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Re: Amazon free to new customers!

[Etzion Bar-Noy]

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 

>
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
> geoffreymendel...@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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Re: Amazon free to new customers!

[Tom Rosenfeld]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendel...@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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Re: Amazon free to new customers!

[geoffrey mendelson]

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. :-)









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Amazon free to new customers!

[Tom Rosenfeld]

*If you haven't already tried cloud computing, this is your chance to use
free for a year!
-tom
*



*http://aws.amazon.com/free/*




  *Amazon offers new customers free cloud computing for a year*



 By Carl Brooks
21 Oct 2010 | SearchCloudComputing.com




  Apparently deciding that a random Thursday afternoon was simply *not
awesome* until it dropped a bombshell, cloud
computingleader
Amazon said it will now give away a free year of Amazon Web Services
(AWS) for new users.

"Beginning Nov. 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2
Micro Instance  for a year, while also
leveraging a new free usage tier for Amazon's Simple Storage Service
(S3),
Elastic Block Store, Elastic Load Balancing and AWS data transfer," states
Amazon Web Services' website. A Micro
instanceis
a about half a CPU core and 613 MB of RAM, enough to comfortably run
the
family website or chug away at a smallish database application without
insane Web-scale traffic. In fact, it's about what a pretty high-end server
was capable of 10 years ago; those were enough to get Yahoo and Google
going, so no scoffing from the power snobs.

There are a few limits: only 10 GB of impermanent Elastic Block Storage, 5
GB of permanent S3, and a maximum of 30 GB of traffic in and out. But, uh,
it's *free*. Free, free, free. Why? Who knows. Let's just say that anyone
who has guessed what AWS' operating margins are (the difference between what
it costs AWS to run an instance and what AWS charges for that instance)
should let those guesses go, because apparently the answer is infinity. It
costs so little to run AWS instances that they are just going to give them
away like a never-ending supply of cheese and cracker samples at Costco.
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