Building an Instant IT Infrastructure

Focus

Cloud computing has created an opportunity to quickly design, build and deploy IT infrastructures. But with so many choices, it has become challenging to wade through the fog of AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) to find what you need, when you need it. BoxTag™ will help you review and compare different AMIs, so you can stitch together a platform that makes sense to you.

What is different about this website?

Cloud Computing can be a bit challenge as it is evolving very fast. We provide videos, whenever we can find them, to help you get started and succeed.

What is Cloud Computing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJncFirhjPg

Cloud Computing in Plain English

(if you speak techie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBd14rjcs0

What is Amazon Web Services? (2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkl24cYc09g

O'Reilly Webcast: Getting Started with Amazon Web Services

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8yuGvnU3A0

Jeff Bezos on Amazon web services

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQt0hF8jO

Case Study

Animoto on AWS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-lQsrtQks

SXSWi Scaling Rails in the Cloud P1Y
(nice cape)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGinUZsNlU

Databases

Databases on the Cloud.

Running Databases on EC2: Amazon Overview

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/running_databases/

MySQL

MySQL Enterprise subscription now offers support for Amazon EC2's virtual computing environment.

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/mysql/

Operating System (OS)

Operating Systems on the Cloud.

MS Server

Windows On EC2 - Part 1 (Cloud Camp Atlanta 09)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6SfVA8SPY

Sudesh Oudi of Service Xen provides a intro-level tutorial on running Windows servers on Amazon EC2.

For the rest of the Presentations see Playlist below

EC2 and Windows (playlist)

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9EEBFF9D9056D550&search_query=wi... ec2

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server® 2003

http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

Providers

Organizations which provide Amazon Machine Images (AMI). These are the primary sources for AMIs which represent three basic cantories:

Corporations: Examples: Sun, Oracle and IBM
Amazon Inc: These are AMIs which AWS creates and well as some Windows Server implementations (Microsoft).
Community: The rest of us.

New or Updated AMIs	Average Rating	Post date
Ubuntu_9_10_x86_64	0	06/28/2010 - 17:35
BitNami MediaWiki Stack 1.15.4-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:32
BitNami Drupal Stack 6.17-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:30
Zarafa 6.40.0	0	06/18/2010 - 11:32
Condor-enabled Ubuntu	0	06/15/2010 - 14:16
Ubuntu 10.04 - Zarafa 6.40.0	0	06/15/2010 - 14:07
CentOS 5.4 - Base - 32bit - i386 - 10GB root fs	0	06/08/2010 - 15:59
Drupal QA Testing Client	0	06/08/2010 - 15:57
Gentoo Linux 2010.1 x86 server base installation	0	06/08/2010 - 15:55
Pantheon Mercury 64-bit 1.0	0	06/08/2010 - 15:54
Pantheon Mercury 32-bit 1.0	0	06/08/2010 - 15:53
Ubuntu-Railo-CruiseControl	0	06/08/2010 - 15:52
EclipseRT 3.6 OSGi Web Application Server	0	06/08/2010 - 15:49
Windows 2003 Security Hardened Server 64-bit plus ClamWin Antivirus (US)	0	06/08/2010 - 15:48
CentOS 5.4 32-bit (i386) AMI Image - Base plus, customize as needed	0	06/08/2010 - 15:46
OpenDS 2.2 image from Conklin Technology	0	06/08/2010 - 15:45
BitNami MediaWiki Stack 1.15.3-0	0	06/08/2010 - 15:22
CloudEgg Centos 5.4	0	06/08/2010 - 10:41
ubuntu.9-04.x86-64-2.6.28-11	0	06/08/2010 - 10:39
openSUSE 11.2 Base, Version 1.0.1 (32-bit)	0	06/08/2010 - 10:37

Top Rated AMIs	Average Rating
Hardened OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Security Enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMP Stack AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Security Enhanced Drupal AMP Stack AMI On OpenSolaris 2009.06 provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Immutable Service Containers on OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Etomite AMI on Open Solaris	0

Amazon Created AMIs

New or Updated AMIs	Average Rating	Post date
Ruby on Rails Web Starter	0	04/07/2009 - 08:35
LAMP Web Starter	0	03/10/2009 - 11:13
Java Web Starter	0	01/08/2009 - 18:14
Perl Web Starter	0	01/08/2009 - 18:14
Amazon Public Images - Fedora Core 4: Developer	0	01/03/2009 - 16:34

Top Rated AMIs	Average Rating
Amazon Public Images - Basic Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit	0
Amazon Public Images - Windows Server 2008 32-bit with SQL Server 2008 Express + IIS + ASP.NET	0
Amazon Public Images - Basic Microsoft Windows Server 2003	0
Amazon Public Images - Getting Started on Microsoft Windows Server 2003	0
Amazon Public Images - Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server Express + IIS + ASP.NET (64bit)	0

Community Created AMIs

New or Updated AMIs	Average Rating	Post date
BitNami Joomla! Stack 1.5.16-0	0	08/06/2010 - 13:43
Ingres VectorWise 1.0 on CentOS 5.5	0	06/28/2010 - 17:39
BitNami WordPress Stack 3.0-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:38
BitNami SugarCRM Stack 5.5.2-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:37
BitNami Moodle Stack 1.9.9-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:36
Ubuntu_9_10_x86_64	0	06/28/2010 - 17:35
BitNami MediaWiki Stack 1.15.4-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:32
BitNami Drupal Stack 6.17-0	0	06/28/2010 - 17:30
Zarafa 6.40.0	0	06/18/2010 - 11:32
Condor-enabled Ubuntu	0	06/15/2010 - 14:16
Ubuntu 10.04 - Zarafa 6.40.0	0	06/15/2010 - 14:07
CentOS 5.4 - Base - 32bit - i386 - 10GB root fs	0	06/08/2010 - 15:59
Drupal QA Testing Client	0	06/08/2010 - 15:57
Gentoo Linux 2010.1 x86 server base installation	0	06/08/2010 - 15:55
Pantheon Mercury 64-bit 1.0	0	06/08/2010 - 15:54

Top Rated AMIs	Average Rating
Archlinux 32bit Base Image	0
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Server 32-bit	0
Archlinux 64bit Base Image	0
Ubuntu 9.10 Server 32-bit (Karmic Koala)	0
Ubuntu 9.10 Server 64-bit (Karmic Koala)	0

AWS Instance creation using DB2 Developer AMI (developerWorks)

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=251366&tst...

Setup WebSphere sMash AMI in Amazon EC2 in about 6 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6k92cN_fg

Securing WebSphere sMash applications deployed on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CjPLbwbd7w

Amazon EC2 running IBM now offers Amazon EC2 instances combined with popular IBM applications that you can pay for by the hour with no need for licenses or long term upfront commitments. You can now flexibly scale your IBM applications up and down and only pay for what you use. If you already have an existing IBM license, you may also have the ability to run that license in Amazon EC2 as well; you simply pay our normal Amazon EC2 hourly prices for On-Demand or Reserved Instances.

The hourly prices for Amazon EC2 running IBM are as follows:

Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Express - starting at $0.38/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Workgroup - starting at $1.31/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM Informix Dynamic Server Express - starting at $0.38/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup - starting at $1.31/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM WebSphere sMash - starting at $0.50/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM Lotus Web Content Management - starting at $2.48/hour
Amazon EC2 running IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Lotus Web Content Management Server - starting at $6.39/hour

Amazon EC2 running IBM requires no commitments or long-term contracts, and allows you to get up and running quickly with IBM's proven technologies, paying only for the hours you use. To get started, you can find Amazon EC2 running IBM AMIs in the AWS Management Console or ElasticFox by searching for them with the keyword "ec2-paid-ibm-amis".

For more details on pricing or using Amazon EC2 with IBM-based technologies please go to http://aws.amazon.com/ibm

IBM Created AMIs

New or Updated AMIs	Average Rating	Post date
IBM Informix Dynamic Server v11.5 on Linux - Development Use Only	0	09/25/2009 - 11:36
IBM DB2 Workgroup 9.7 on Linux (64-bit)	0	09/24/2009 - 06:46
IBM DB2 Express 9.7 on Linux (32-bit)	0	09/24/2009 - 06:45
IBM DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 on Linux (32 bit) - Development Use Only	0	08/21/2009 - 09:36
IBM DB2 Express-C 9.7.1 on Linux (64 bit) - Development Use Only	0	08/21/2009 - 09:35
IBM Mashup Center 1.1.0.1 (32-bit)	0	08/10/2009 - 19:04
IBM Lotus Forms Turbo 3.5 (32-bit)	0	08/10/2009 - 19:03
IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale v7.0 on Linux, 32 bit - Development Use Only	0	07/29/2009 - 09:21
Open Beta - IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management - Dev Use Only	0	06/24/2009 - 08:23
IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.9 - Development Use Only	0	06/22/2009 - 07:16
IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 64 bit on Linux - Development Use Only	0	06/11/2009 - 18:50
IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 32 bit on Linux - Development Use Only	0	06/11/2009 - 18:46
IBM WebSphere sMash on Linux - Development Use Only	0	05/27/2009 - 05:05
IBM WebSphere Portal Server & IBM Lotus Web Content Management Standard Edition (64-bit)	0	05/05/2009 - 09:24
IBM Mashup Center 2.0 - Development Use Only	0	04/29/2009 - 15:59

Top Rated AMIs	Average Rating
IBM Industry Application Platform AMI for Development Use	0
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 - Dev use only	0
IBM Mashup Center 2.0 (32-bit)	0
IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.9 (32-bit)	0
IBM DB2 Express 9.7.1 on Linux (32-bit)	0

Oracle

Use Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux to build solutions in the cloud, leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS).

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/oracle/

Oracle Created AMIs

New or Updated AMIs	Average Rating	Post date
Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 - 64 Bit	0	02/05/2009 - 17:05
Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 - 32 Bit	0	02/05/2009 - 16:46
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Express Edition - 32 Bit	0	01/03/2009 - 16:00
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Standard Edition/Standard Edition One - 64 Bit	0	01/03/2009 - 15:59
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Enterprise Edition - 32 Bit	0	01/03/2009 - 15:59
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Enterprise Edition - 64 Bit	0	01/03/2009 - 15:59

Top Rated AMIs	Average Rating
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 Enterprise Edition - 64 Bit	0

Sun Created AMIs

New or Updated AMIs	Average Rating	Post date
OpenSolaris Ruby On Rails 2 AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	05/05/2009 - 13:11
OpenSolaris 2008.11 64-bit Base AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	04/30/2009 - 09:09
OpenSolaris 2008.11 With GlassFish 2.1 and MySQL 5.1 Provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	04/29/2009 - 15:54
OpenSolaris 2008.11 Base AMI (US and EU) provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	04/27/2009 - 09:46
OpenSolaris 2008.11 With Joomla 1.5.9 and AMP stack Provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	04/07/2009 - 10:14
OpenSolaris 2008.11 with Drupal 6.10 and AMP Stack AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	04/06/2009 - 15:13
OpenSolaris 2008.05 with Joomla AMI using AMP Stack provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	03/31/2009 - 16:34
OpenSolaris 2008.05 with Mediawiki AMI using AMP Stack provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	03/31/2009 - 16:32
OpenSolaris 2008.05 (build 91) AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	03/31/2009 - 16:30
OpenSolaris 2008.05 with Drupal AMI using AMP stack provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0	03/31/2009 - 16:24

Top Rated AMIs	Average Rating
Hardened OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Security Enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMP Stack AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Security Enhanced Drupal AMP Stack AMI On OpenSolaris 2009.06 provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Immutable Service Containers on OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMI provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.	0
Etomite AMI on Open Solaris	0

Computing in the Cloud - Security and risk in the cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFfLGJ4RtI

Securing WebSphere sMash applications deployed on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CjPLbwbd7w

Anonymous Browsing with the Amazon EC2 Cloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6VO3c6F_7M

Tools

Tools for managing your cloud computing infrastructure.

Elastifox

What is Elastifox?

Elatifox is a tool, running on FireFox, which manages your cloud computing resources on Amazon Web Services.

Running an EC2 Image with Elasticfox 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365EckhuQhA

Running an EC2 Image with Elasticfox 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-xMADoiUA

Puppet

Dialog on Puppet - Part 1 (Cloud Camp Atlanta 09)

Puppet creator Luke Kanies of Reductive Labs gives a Q & A session on all things Puppet, a configuration management system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7X5g1XkOV8

Dialog on Puppet - Part 2 (Cloud Camp Atlanta 09)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqPgd1qEYG0

S3 Firefox Organizer: S3Fox

What is S3 Firefox Organizer?

S3 is one of the storage options that runs on the Amazon Web Service. This helps you manage files between your S3 storage, which is on the cloud, and your local computer.