My Thoughts » ec2 http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog It compiles; Let's ship it! Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Desktop on EC2 http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/2008/05/05/desktop-on-ec2/ http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/2008/05/05/desktop-on-ec2/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 12:52:22 +0000 Martijn http://martijnpannevis.nl/blog/?p=31 Nulaz on Ubuntu 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….

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it boots!

Yay! This is a screenshot of the first EC2 instance, I just booted! I have been planning to experiment with it for a long time, and thanks to the nice tutorial it actually was easier than I thought. EC2 enables everyone to rent an unlimited number of servers, for 10 cents/hour (and up). No fixed costs.

I’m a strong believer in cloud-computing, especially for small companies/startups, so this is something I plan on experimenting more with, as with other Amazon web services. Now let’s think of how we can actually use this.

Now if only there was an European Ec2, like there is for S3… The latency to the US is still an issue. And in other news, light still travels at the speed of light…

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