Klaas Bals' Blog

I've ran my first Amazon EC2 virtual machine instances. I started of with some of the default Fedora AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) provided by Amazon themselves.

But I don't feel at home on a Fedora Linux as much as on a Gentoo Linux, so I tried the Gentoo 2007.0 Base System AMI provided by Eminent, and that worked perfectly. (I started of with another one created by Geert Bevin, but that virtual machine had some network problems, so I switched to the AMI by Eminent.)

The first thing I had to do was modify a text file, so I installed the only good text editor ;-) and created my own AMI.

So, I was able to complete an entire EC2 cycle: Create a virtual machine for a provided AMI, connect to it, play around with it, install some extra software and dump it into my own AMI. Nothing complicated, but still nice for a starter.