This how to article will go over saving a snapshot of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI). This is very useful for taking an existing AMI and modifying it to customize your needs into a new separate AMI.
For my intents and purposes I have a base CentOS 5.3 AMI with only the bare essentials. I then use this snapshot method to create different class AMI’s for different server functions ie. (webserver, memcached server, etc)
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I have been doing a lot of work with Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing for VMIX Media Inc. so much recently we have started a relationship with Amazon. So far they have been very helpful and working with Amazon Web Services has been great! You can read about our relationship in the Amazon Solutions Catalog: VMIX Delivers SaaS Online Video and Digital Media Solution with AWS
This article is a step buy step on building your own skateboard; the alternative is having your local skateboard shop do it for you. A long time ago back in my early youth, I worked at two skateboard / inline skate shops one in Lawndale CA, and the other in Hermosa Beach CA, from age 13-18. It was possibly the best work experience of my life. In any rate I decided 15 years later to relive old times and pick up parts to build a new board and go for a ride (yes midlife crisis here I come).
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