[Seaside] Rapidly deploy your Seaside application for free using Amazon EC2 and Gemstone

[Nick Ager]

HI Ron,

I didn't realise AMI's are specific to the region and a brief search of the
docs indicates Amazon doesn't make it trivial to move the AMI.

I'll look into moving the AMI this evening,

Cheers

Nick

On 3 January 2011 15:53, Welch, Ronald P (US SSA) <
ronald.p.welch at baesystems.com> wrote:

> Nick,
>
> Nice work. Thanks for doing this. But one thing I noticed
> is that the AMI is only available in the "EU West" region.
> Looking for it any of the other regions results in "No
> records found." (see attached) for me. Is there any way
> to get the image loaded in the other regions (US East
> is closest to me).
>
> Anyway, thanks again,
>
> Ron
>
>
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> On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Nick Ager wrote:
>
> Amazon's offer of a free micro instance for a year[1] grabbed my attention:
>
> To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a
>> new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to
>> run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year...
>
>
> I've created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (ami-7f9bae0b) which is
> preconfigured with a webserver, Gemstone, GemTools into which I've loaded
> Seaside 3.03 and latest Pier code. You should be able to use the machine
> image to rapidly deploy your Seaside applications or use the AMI as the
> basis for your own improved configuration, then share that configuration
> back with the community. Creating and sharing modified configurations is
> relatively straight-forward [2].
>
> I've documented how to use my AMI to create your own free EC2 instances -
> http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Create-a-free-Gemstone-server-in-the-cloud-in-10-minutes
> There's an accompanying screencast -
> http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Screencast-creating-a-new-instance-based-on-pre-configured-AMI or
> on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/18375790
> I've also documented the process of creating the AMI -
> http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/Installing-Gemstone-on-an-Amazon-EC2-Linux-instance
>
> Have fun
>
> Nick
>
> [1] http://aws.amazon.com/free/
> [2]
> http://www.nickager.com/nasite/blog/CreateAReusableAmazonMachineInstance
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