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Run Amazon EC2 AMI in Windows

Is there a way to run an Amazon EC2 AMI image in Windows? I'd like to be able to do some testing and configuration locally. I'm looking for something like Virtual PC. ...

Source for useful EC2 AMIs

Using Amazon's own client libraries (or alternatives), you can get listings of available pre-packaged AMIs, but the interface is definitely designed for scriptability, not readability. Elasticfox is better, but still doesn't make it easy to see what an AMI does, allow for user rating, etc. Is there a centralised place for me to easily f...

Java Web Starter AMI

I'm trying to follow the tutorial on http://ttlnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-up-amazon-ami-with-java-and.html but can't find the Java Web Starter AMI (ami-1c54b075) when searcing for AMI in the AWS console. Anyone now why this could be? It seems to be one of the most popular AMIs as well (see infobox on the right side), so seems stra...

What tools can I use to deploy PHP code to an EC2 instance

We can bundle all files into an Amazon Machine Instance and upload it. But I'd like to see if there is a more efficient way to regularly upload source code on to test our app and constantly have the latest version up and running. Thanks! ...

Is it possible to roll my own Amazon Machine Image with a pre-Windows 2003 OS?

I've been researching EC2 over at Amazon Web Services and the website notes: "You are also empowered to use our bundling tools to upload your own operating systems." Now I've been trying to find out if the only Windows version that is supported is Windows Server 2003 or if I would be able to virtualize an older version of Win...

Asterisk Manager Api events

Hello all I am using Elastix along with the Astmanproxy server to run our call center desktop app. This app gathers info such as callerid, number dialed, etc. to help our agents get customer information among other things. This app changes it's background color upon certain events(like green when the agent answers the call). I use the ...

Deploying .NET applications to Amazon EC2 - what AMI image to use?

What AMI images do you use when deploying or testing .NET applications at Amazon EC2? Is this image based on Windows or Linux? Is it an image from AMI repository or something that you've built (if so, then is it public)? What version of .NET does it support (applies for Linux)? What other important features does it include? So far I'...

What is the point of instance storage on EC2?

I'm building some AMIs from one of the basic ones on EC2. One of the instance types is running Tomcat and contains a lot of Lucene indexes; another instance will be running MySQL and have correspondingly large data requirements with it. I'm trying to define the best way to include those in the AMIs that I'm authoring. If I mount /mnt/l...

Is an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) immutable?

(Thanks in advance for tolerating my seems-to-be-stupid question). I mean: Consider a VMWare Windows 2003 image. If I 1 - start this image and then 2 - run a program that writes something to a file and then 3 - stop the VMWare image and then 4 - start the VMWare image then still that file resides on hard disk of the VMWare image. Is...

What is Interface name in QueuePause

Anyone can tell me what is interface name for QueuePause action (Asterisk Manager Interface). http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/en/2nd%5FEdition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/asterisk-APP-F-30.html I try "SIP/2222" (connected extesion) but it alway throws "Interface Not found". I don't khow how to get right interface, does one please tell me h...

Is there any possible way to make hook flash to any extension throoght software?

I like to make conference call following this step. 2222 make call to 3333 (phone) 3333 receive phone call (phone) simulate push flash button to 2222 thought AMI/? (software) originate call to 4444 throught AMI (software) 4444 receive phone call (phone) simulate push flash button to 2222 thought AMI/? again (software) 222 333 4444 spea...

CORBA AMI call not producing callback?

I'm modifying the stock quoter example from the wustl CORBA release. The assignment is to implement a reply handler for the StockFactory class that handles calls to get_stock() Here's my FactoryHandler implementation: FactoryHandler_i.h: #ifndef TAO_TUTORIALS_QUOTER_AMI_CLIENT_FACTORYHANDLER_I_H #define TAO_TUTORIALS_QUOTER_AMI_CLIENT...

capacity of ec2 amis

How can I evaluate the capacity of Amazon EC2 Amis for my different templates; A) Webserver (Apache/PHP) - pages/sec. B) Database (MySql) - connections/sec. C) App Server (Tomcat) - pages/sec. I was hoping there was some kind of baseline tool that I can use to evaluate the many choices available on EC2 without using my System Under Deve...

Asterisk.Net Dial Event does not raise in some times

Hi I use Asterisk.NET to implement a software that shows receive phone number in pop up form. and I use DialEvent to be aware from a coming Tel.my application always is run in a form that I Hide it. this event work good for me and I can understand when some call receive to me,then I show pop up form. NOW my problem is: sometimes I do not...

"Best" Amazon EC2 EMI for CentOS with EBS storage?

Hi there, Are there any "good", clean, reliable and trustworthy "out-of-the-box" Amazon EC2 AMI images for CentOS that uses EBS storage by default (instead of instance storage)? The RightScale AMIs seem pretty popular but they are only with instance storage. I can't find any information or "Top AMIs" lists.. Thanks a lot in advance. ...