Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today.

~ All in all, it really took me only part of a day to climb the learning curve of interacting with VPCs with AWS CLI and rewrite the script I use to spawn servers. Although so far it does take me a ...

Finally, make a note of your AWS account ID number, as you may need it later. Now that you've got your Amazon account and are enrolled in the EC2 program, it's time to start installing the management ...

In this excerpt from A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mark Sobell explains how to start a virtual Linux system in the cloud using Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud).