My question (and I can't seem to find a simple answer) is: Once this is all setup how do I actually get to the computer. If I request a windows instance, can I just remote desktop in? Or is there a special web interface?
Does Amazon give me admin privs on the box? Which I'd need to load an application? What about data transfer? I've looked thru their website and I can't seem to find the answers to these simply questions, nor is there a phone number where I can call and discuss this with a human being. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Jordan Schatz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:19:24PM -0700, Alvaro Carrasco wrote: >> Amazon lets you do exactly that. It doesn't cost anything to sign up >> and you'll only pay a few dollars (hourly usage, bandwidth, etc) to >> try it for a couple of days. You can then delete the instance and pay >> no more, keep paying the few dollars a day, or reserve an instance to >> get a discount price. It is more work to set up a more complete system >> since you'll probably have to use EBS (elastic block storage, another >> service) for persistent storage, S3 for backups, etc. >> But it's VERY easy and cheap to try. > > Thanks for the info everyone, I am thinking strongly that we will use > EC2. I am not sure that I understand EC2, it seems a little to good to be > true. If I understand it correctly I don't need to set up a RAID, or > consciously duplicate my data, because the virtualized EBS (elastic block > storage) is already redundant, and I don't need to have a failover > server, since the virtualized EC2 instance will persist even if the > hardware fails. > > Is that your experience? > > Does all the virtualization great high latency? or other performance > problem? > > It just sounds to easy... > > -Jordan > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
