Desktop on EC2

I’m still, sometimes, playing with EC2 (although I haven’t found a project where I really need the massive computing power that they can offer). Today I found a page with Ubuntu images, also offering some with desktops. I decided to start one, and it just worked ^(tm).
The whole process was remarkably easy: Find the right image in Elasticfox (thanks to the new search field, that was easy), select my credentials, login, run the 2 lines from http://www.alestic.com/ and login with the nomachines client.
Now I can start thinking what i can do with my 10 cents (that’s only 6 for us europeans) an hour second computer, besides taking screenshots….