Hi, does anyone know if this can be done? I can find Windows Server 2003 but not 2008. I read you can create your own EC2 Virtual machines, but I haven't found any articles that say you can do this with Windows Server 2008. I'm really after IIS7, but I'd also intend to use SQL Server Express 2008 until such time as I can add support f...
I am using Amazon EC2 for the first time, and need to create an instance that runs Windows, MSSQL Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and IIS Server 6.0. I am unable to decide what AMI (out of the huge list of community AMIs) should I choose to meet my requirements. Is there a way I can make this decision without doing trial and error. ...
Is it possible to create a EBS volume from and attach it to the same instance? will boto be of some help? ...
Hi I have created an Amazon EC2 Instance that provides Windows Server 2008 with SQL Sever 2008 pre-installed. Now in order to use the SQL Server for creating databases, or restoring backups of the databases that I have on my local machine, I need the "sa" password for SQL Server 2008. I have tried using the following but with no luck: ...
I am making my own AMIs (Virtual machines on Amazon's EC2). I can't use the default kernel. I have to use one of the other provided amazon kernels. I am trying to make this AMI be really really easy to use and make sure an idiot can start it up. However there is the important step where they have to choose this kernel. Is there anyway to...
I would like to download a public Amazon EC2 AMI, such as this one (Ubuntu Lucid), so that I can programmatically extract its contents. How do I do this? I suspect there is an S3 address somewhere? This blog post looks like it once described this process, but the link seems to no longer work. So far I can only find explanations of ho...