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We thought you may want to know about the team who is working on making OpenSolaris integrate and work on Amazon EC2. This team is your first point of contact for any information on EC2/OpenSolaris and for providing any technical assistance you may need while you develop and create your stacks on OpenSolaris for Amazon EC2. You can reach the team at ec2-solaris [at] sun [dot] com.

I am a Senior Market Development manager and manage relationships with startups, developers and strategic partners and am part of Startups and Emerging Markets team at Sun. As part of Sun Startup Essentials team, I am currently working on ways to help early stage startups to provide them Sun technologies, products and services which help them take-off the ground and grow their businesses with very little or no investments and shorter time to market. I am managing business relationship with Amazon Web services and working with the team to bring best Operating System on Planet aka OpenSolaris to the developers, startups and other EC2 users.

Sujeet Vasudevan 

Sujeet Vasudevan is a Senior Engineering Manager in Global Market Development and engineering. He has over 17 years of industry experience working with various ISV, customers, SIs and startups. He works primarily with Oracle as a team leader, and also leads team of engineers who work with many others ISVs across the spectrum.  Sujeet is lead engineering manager on integration of OpenSolaris with EC2. 

Dileep Kumar

Dileep Kumar is a Staff Engineer in the ISV Engineering Group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He has over ten years of experience in the computer industry and now works on OpenSolaris and IBM WebSphere products on Solaris. His area of expertise includes Solaris, Java and J2EE based system design and development, performance enhancement, and implementation. He holds a M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara. Read Dileep's professional blog at http://blogs.sun.com/dkumar
 

  Alan Yoshida

Alan is one of the lead developers on OpenSolaris on EC2 engineering team. Alan has been working on porting AMI and API tools to OpenSolaris and most often you will hear from Alan in case you run into any OpenSolaris issues.

  Sharlene Wong

Sharlene is program manager for OpenSolaris on EC2 beta program. If you have been approved for access to OpenSolaris AMIs, you've seen emails from Sharlene. Sharlene will continue to be you point of communication during the Beta program.

Announcing availability of new AMIs based on SXCE AMI and GlassFish. For those of you who have been provided access to OpenSolaris AMIs, you have access to these AMIs as well.

                                         

1. OpenSolaris (SXCE) + GlassFish ( This is smaller footprint of SXCE or "Just Enough OS" )

    a. 32-bit AMI: ami-8142a7e8 aki-b57b9edc ari-b47b9edd / sun-osol/JeOS-79_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml

    b. 64-bit AMI: ami-314da858 aki-8e7a9fe7 ari-817a9fe8 / sun-osol/JeOS-79_64_1.0.img.manifest.xml

2. OpenSolaris (SXCE) + GlassFish + MySQL

    a. 32-bit AMI: ami-3742a75e aki-b57b9edc ari-b47b9edd / sun-osol/GFAS-MySQL-79_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml

 3. OpenSolaris (SXCE) + GlasFish + Liferay

    a. 32-bit AMI: ami-cb40a5a2 aki-b57b9edc ari-b47b9edd  / sun-osol/GF-LF-79_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml

    b. 64-bit AMI: ami-dd40a5b4 aki-8e7a9fe7 ari-817a9fe8 / sun-osol/GF-LF-79_64_1.0.img.manifest.xml

For more information and details on these AMIs including user names and passwords, please refer to Rudolf's detailed blog. As always, please feel free to contact us at ec2-solaris [at] sun [dot] com.

 

We are almost reaching the capacity limit on number of instances we have available on Amazon EC2 for running OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI. As we continue to integrate and test OpenSolaris 2008.05 with EC2, we have limitation on the number of instances allocated currently. If you have been granted access to OpenSolaris 2008.05 AMI, please note that EC2_URL must be set to :

EC2_URL=https://ec2-pinotage.amazonaws.com. Once Amazon team has completed testing, the URL will change and communicated.

Please note that the image re-bundling tools are being under development / testing at this time as well.

 Solaris Express.79 AMIs are available for deployment in full capacity. AMI / API tools have been completed ported and tested and are available for use.

 Thank you for your patience as Sun and Amazon continue to work together to make EC2 and OpenSolaris a platform to offer best development experience.

 If you have any suggestions or comments or would like to help out with OpenSolaris 2008.05 re-bundling efforts, please feel free to contact us at ec2-solaris [AT] SUN [dot] COM.

On may 5th, we announced the availability of OpenSolaris (2008.05) on Amazon EC2. Announcements were covered by GigaOm and Amazon's official announcement is here. We / MySQl also announced Amazon EC2 as one of the supported platforms, which meas if you already have purchased a support contract from MySQl, you can now deploy MySQl on EC2 and get same production level support from MySQL. These are two huge milestones which proves Sun's leadership in Cloud Computing space.

So, what did this collaboration between Amazon Web services and Sun do? It offers choice, choice to developers and startups in two ways-

1) OpenSolaris provides ZFS filesystem, first 128-bit filesystem which offer 64-bit checksum capability to maintain data integrity and Rollback functionality to be able to quickly rollback changes to the last known stable state in case of data corruption of instability in the fileysytsem. Secondly, OpenSolaris is the only OS which offers Dtrace - a observability and tracing tool which helps developers and administrators to debug and trace issues and bottlenecks right from the hardware level (OS level in case of EC2) to their application code and middleware in between. Most importantly, developers and EC2 users can now have choice of multiple OSes other than various variants of Linux.

2) Freedom to run MySQL on Cloud. MySQl is most critical component of any web applications and MySQL's commitment to support Cloud such as EC2 as supported platform, opens the doors for startups to leverage the cloud infrastructure to further reduce the cost and capex investment towards the infrastructure build-out at early stages of the company.
 

We are excited to be working with Amazon Web services and providing choice to developers, startups and students who wish to use EC2 cloud for their development and deployment use.

Here you will find the latest information on the program and any late breaking information. OpenSolaris on EC2 team welcomes you and we look forward to providing you any technical assistance and information you need for a best possible OpenSolaris experience. Please feel free to leave comments here or contact us at ec2-solaris-support [AT] SUN [dot] COM.