Talk:Amazon Web Services
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Linux on Amazon Web Services
You can either use a pre-built AMI (Amazon Machine Image) or create one yourself. I recommend starting with a pre-built AMI from a reputable source, such as the official Amazon Linux AMI.
Amazon Linux AMI
- Official Amazon Linux AMI appears to be CentOS 5.x based (see Amazon Linux AMI User Guide).
- More info and AMI ID's per region: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/
- Latest Amazon Linux AMI Release Notes
For Ireland, Europe, the current AMI ID's are (as of 2011.04):
- ami-47cefa33
- 32-bit EBS-backed
- ami-45cefa31
- 64-bit EBS-backed
- ami-7fcefa0b
- 32-bit S3-backed
- ami-7bcefa0f
- 64-bit S3-backed
More AMIs can be found here.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on AWS
AWS Services
IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management allows you to set up a fine-grained security policy. The "master" AWS account can contain additional users and groups with specific rights.
Route53
SNS
Simple Notification Service
SQS
Simple Queuing Service
Documentation from Amazon
There is a lot of documentation available from Amazon.
- Guides
- Articles & Tutorials
- Feature Guide: Elastic Block Store
- Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses
- Getting started with AWS and Python (using the boto library for Python)
- Best Practices for Using Amazon S3
- Tips for Securing Your EC2 Instance
- Amazon SQS: The Queue as Glue (video, WMV/Flash only)
- Configuring Amazon EC2 for RAID
- Introduction to Parameterized Launches
- Blog
Libraries
boto
Python library. Installed under Mac OS X 10.6.x:
sudo easy_install boto
Resources: