Yay, I got my invitation to use the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud last week :)
First of all i needed to active the Service, uploaded my X.509 certificate. Congratulations Amazon, that’s the way to do it!

It took me 30 minutes to get a zope instance running :)

After that I downloaded the ec2 tools extracted them to /opt/ec2-api-tools

You’ll need the following environment variables (on OSX):

export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-batlogg.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-batlogg.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
export PATH=”$PATH:/opt/ec2-api-tools/bin”

Then create a RSA key pair (i think the call stores the public key at amazon and shows you the private key):

/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.2-5692/bin/ec2-add-keypair lsa001-keypair

I saved it under the name id_rsa-lsa001-keypair

Here we go! Select an instance and start it.

ec2-describe-images shows some images to run:

IMAGE ami-5bae4b32 ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest 206029621532 available public
IMAGE ami-68ae4b01 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-base.manifest 206029621532 available public
IMAGE ami-69ae4b00 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache-mysql.manifest 206029621532 available public
IMAGE ami-6dae4b04 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-apache.manifest 206029621532 available public
IMAGE ami-6fae4b06 ec2-public-images/fedora-core4-mysql.manifest 206029621532 available public

let’s use the fedora-core4-base:

ec2-run-instances ami-5bae4b32 -k lsa001-keypair

after some minutes the machine was up and running:

ec2-describe-instances
RESERVATION r-b0d431d9 538162834475 default
INSTANCE i-c7b357ae ami-5bae4b32 domU-12-31-33-00-04-5D.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com running lsa001-keypair

open the firewall:

/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.2-5692/bin/ec2-authorize default -p 22
/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.2-5692/bin/ec2-authorize default -p 80
/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.2-5692/bin/ec2-authorize default -p 8080

ssh to the virtual host:

ssh -i id_rsa-lsa001-keypair root@domU-12-31-33-00-04-07.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com

that was easy :) now get zope up and running

yum install python
yum install subversion
yum install gcc
yum install python-devel
wget http://apt.ling.li/rpms/python-imaging/python-imaging-1.1.5-1.li.fc4.i586.rpm
yum install tk
rpm -ivh python-imaging-1.1.5-1.li.fc4.i586.rpm

useradd -m zope-media
su - zope-media
svn co https://svn.lovelysystems.com/repos/……./teleport.mediaportal/trunk .
make
make run

That’s it :)

http://domu-12-31-33-00-04-5d.usma1.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/++skin++VOL/teleport.mediaportal