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AMI ID:	ami-5d2cca34
AMI Manifest:	sun-osol-2008-11/OpenSolaris_2008.11_32_OpenESB_v3.0.img.manifest.xml
License:	Public

Description:

This 32 bit AMI is based on OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI

OpenESB is an Open Source project creating a platform for Business Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, and SOA. The license is CDDL. A large number of components is being developed in the OpenESB community: e.g. for accessing back-end systems and other ESBs or SOA platforms, for message transformation, etc. Unlike proprietary ESBs, OpenESB is purely based on open standards (e.g. JBI and Java EE). This prevents vendor lock-in.

The following components are included in the AMI.

• OpenESB v3 (pre-configured state) contains the following:

  • The OpenESB v3 Runtime

  • Service Engines

    • Sun JRuby Engine

    • POJO SE Component

  • Binding Components

    • FTP Binding Component

    • Email Binding Component

    • File Binding Component

    • Sun Database Binding

    • Scheduler Binding Component

    • REST Binding Component

    • RSS Binding Component

    • XMPP Binding Component

  • Shared Libraries

    • Sun WSDL Shared Library

    • Sun Encoder Library

    • Sun Shared Util Library

  • The Aspect Framework

  • Log Aspect

  • Policy Aspect

  • A Web-Based Tooling Editor (accessible from http://<DNS host name associated with the instance>:8080/fuji/editor)

• Apache Derby

• Apache Felix

The OpenESB Web Editor can be accessible using public DNS address associated with the instance. It can be accessed from http://<DNS host name associated with the instance>:8080/fuji/editor in their browser.

Configuration:

• OpenESB v3 (bundled within this AMI in pre-configured state) is available under location /usr/fuji

• Users can launch the OpenESB editor from http://<DNS host name associated with the instance>:8080/fuji/editor in their browser.

• Apache Felix and Derby services are pre-configured to start on automatically

For more details on security information and image usage instructions, please refer to the '/root/ec2sun/
README' file.

File Layout

	OpenESB v3
Binary Runtime Files	/usr/fuji
Configuration Files	/usr/fuji/conf

To start the OpenESB v3 instance:

cd /usr/fuji

java -jar ./bin/felix.jar

The instance uses up 3 ports:

• 1600 - Apache Derby

• 8699 - RMI/JRMP Port

• 8080 - Http Port used by the OSGi/Felix Http Service

The web application should be accessible from:

http://<DNS host name associated with the instance>:8080/fuji/editor

Documentation:

• For more information on OpenESB v3, visit
  https://fuji.dev.java.net/

Support

• Register at http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/ to receive latest news on OpenSolaris AMIs

• For technical support during Beta period, please send emails to ec2-solaris-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.

OpenSolaris AMI License for Amazon EC2
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/license/ami/

OpenSolaris is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the US and other countries.

We are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest Wordpress AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI and does not need registration.

Following are the details of this new AMI:

Wordpress 32-bit AMI:

ami-ffa78f8b aki-661c3412 / ari-601c3414

Manifest: WordPress_2008.11_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml

To run this AMI in Europe, change the following environment variables before launching the AMI:

EC2_URL="https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com"
LOCATION="EU"

The other env variables remain the same.

NOTE:  a unique <your-keypair-name> must be generated for each region before launching an AMI.(Use ec2-add-keypair <name> > keypairfile after setting the above env variables).

We are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest Ruby on Rails on OpenSolaris 32-bit AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI and does not need registration.

Following are the details of this new AMI:

Ruby On Rails 32-bit AMI:

ami-e9a1899d aki-661c3412 / ari-601c3414

Manifest: opensolaris_2008_11_32_RubyOnRails_v2.img.manifest.xml

To run this AMI in Europe, change the following environment variables before launching the AMI:

EC2_URL="https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com"
LOCATION="EU"

The other env variables remain the same.

NOTE:  a unique <your-keypair-name> must be generated for each region before launching an AMI.(Use ec2-add-keypair <name> > keypairfile after setting the above env variables).

We are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest OpenSolaris 64-bit Base AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 64-bit base AMI and does not need registration.

Following are the details of this new AMI:

OpenSolaris 64-bit Base AMI:

ami-99a68eed aki-95a68ee1 / ari-aba68edf

Manifest: 2008.11_64_1.0.img.manifest.xml

To run this AMI in Europe, change the following environment variables before launching the AMI:

EC2_URL="https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com"
LOCATION="EU"

The other env variables remain the same.

NOTE:  a unique <your-keypair-name> must be generated for each region before launching an AMI.(Use ec2-add-keypair <name> > keypairfile after setting the above env variables).

AMI ID:	ami-1509ee7c
AMI Manifest:	sun-osol-2008-11/WordPress_2008.11_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml
License:	Public

Description:

This 32 bit AMI is based on OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMP Stack AMI. Following components are
included in the AMI.

• WordPress 2.7 (pre-configured state)
  
• Apache 2.2
• MySQL 5.0
• PHP 5.2 (along with extensions like APC, DTrace, Suhosin, Memcache) runtime
• phpMyAdmin for administering MySQL database

Security Recommendations:

• Wordpress Installation/configuration pages can be accessible using public DNS address associated with the instance. It is recommended to configure Amazon EC2 firewall on port '80' to limit inbound connections.

• After the installation change the permission on “/var/wordpress/wp-config.php” file to 600 .
  This file should not be accessible to group or world.
  

Configuration:

• WordPress (bundled within this AMI in pre-configured state) is available under location /var/wordpress
  

• WordPress specific configuration for Apache Web Server is available within /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/wordpress.conf
  

• Users can launch and configure WordPress by accessing http://<DNS name associated with the instance> in their browser
  

• Apache and MySQL services are pre-configured to start on boot

• If you would like to use phpMyAdmin, you will need to do the following:

                  # cp /etc/apache2/2.2/samples-conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/

                  # svcadm restart http:apache22

• DTrace probes are available within Apache and PHP runtime. Sample DTrace scripts are available under /opt/DTT/

For more details on security information and image usage instructions, please refer to the '/root/ec2sun/
README' file.

AMP Stack File Layouts

	Apache	PHP	MySQL
Binary Runtime Files	/usr/apache2/2.2/bin	/usr/php/5.2/bin	/usr/mysql/5.0/bin
Configuration Files	/etc/apache2/2.2	/etc/php/5.2	/etc/mysql/5.0
Web Documents / Data Files	/var/apache2/2.2	/var/php/5.2	/var/mysql/5.0

Administering AMP Stack

Command	Apache	MySQL
Start Service	svcadm enable http:apache22	svcadm enable mysql:version_50
Stop Service	svcadm disable http:apache22	svcadm disable mysql:version_50
Restart Service	svcadm restart http:apache22	svcadm restart mysql:version_50

You can reset MySQL 'root' password by running following command:

# /usr/mysql/5.0/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password '<MySQL password>'

It is highly recommended to secure your MySQL database by following the guidelines mentioned within MySQL 5 database documentation:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/security-guidelines.html

ZFS + EBS for MySQL

User can now take advantage of ZFS to manage EBS volumes and can store MySQL data on it. It may improve performance for certain workloads and database sizes.

For more information visit

• http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/ebs_is_supported_on_opensolaris

• http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-zfs.html
  

Documentation:

• WordPress Getting Started Documentation
  http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
  

• For questions regarding Apache, MySQL and PHP runtime, please visit Web Stack Getting Started Guide for OpenSolaris 2008.11 athttp://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/Web+Stack+Getting+Started+Guide

• For general questions on OpenSolaris, please visit OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide:

  http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf

Support

• Register at http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/ to receive latest news on OpenSolaris AMIs

• For technical support during Beta period, please send emails to ec2-solaris-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.

• AMP Stack within OpenSolaris are delivered as part of WebStack project . For any questions related to these components, please write to webstack-discuss[AT]opensolaris[DOT]org
  

OpenSolaris AMI License for Amazon EC2
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/license/ami/

OpenSolaris and MySQL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or
its subsidiaries in the US and other countries.

Hardened OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMI Now Available on Amazon EC2 in Europe! 

We are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest Hardened OpenSolaris AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI and does not need registration.

Following are the details of this new AMI:

Hardened 32-bit AMI:

ami-d7a189a3 aki-661c3412 / ari-601c3414

Manifest: hardened_2008.11_32_4.0.img.manifest.xml

To run this AMI in Europe, change the following environment variables before launching the AMI:

EC2_URL="https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com"
LOCATION="EU"

The other env variables remain the same.

NOTE:  a unique <your-keypair-name> must be generated for each region before launching an AMI.(Use ec2-add-keypair <name> > keypairfile after setting the above env variables).

AMI ID:	ami-4133d528
AMI Manifest:	sun-opensolaris-2009-06/opensolaris_2009.06_32_6.0.img.manifest.xml
AKI/ARI ID:	aki-b128ced8 / ari-d336d0ba
License:	Public

Description:

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pleased to announce the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Amazon EC2's cloud computing service. This 32-bit AMI gives you the power and security of OpenSolaris combined with the flexibility of Amazon's cloud computing service, and is optimized for for Amazon EC2's cloud computing environment.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 is the latest release of the OpenSolaris Operating System, a powerful and complete operating environment for users. developers and deployers. OpenSolaris prides itself on being a secure, stable, and highly scalable system. The OpenSolaris OS is open source software, and freely re-distributable and provides all the tools users expect from a modern computing environment both installed by default and available on our online network package repositories.

Information on "What's new in OpenSolaris 2009.06" is available at http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/features/whats-new/200906/

The root file system is ZFS in this AMI and includes the pre-installed packages and tools necessary to get started with using OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2. You can obtain more details about the OpenSolaris project at http://www.opensolaris.org.

Also, just like in our previous AMIs, the "pkg image-update" command updates the kernel and ramdisk which is not allowed in Amazon EC2. Therefore, in order to prevent your instances from becoming non-compatible with the Amazon EC2 environment, we have disabled this command.

The "Getting Started Guide" has been updated with instructions for Re-bundling OpenSolaris 2009.06 based 32-bit AMI on Amazon EC2.

Support:

For technical support during the Beta period, please contact ec2­-solaris­-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.

Please check OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 blog for latest updates and new information about OpenSolaris AMIs.

The "OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide" is located at:
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf

Register for OpenSolaris AMIs here.

AMI ID:	ami-41cd2b28
AMI Manifest:	sun-osol-2008-11/opensolaris_2008_11_32_RubyOnRails_v2.img.manifest.xml
AKI/ARI ID:	aki-6552b60c / ari-6452b60d
License:	Public

Description:

This is a pre-configured Typo appliance running on an optimized Ruby on Rails stack. It is based on Sun's OpenSolaris 32-bit image (ami-7db75014). The Typo engine is configured to automatically start on booting the AMI.  Nginx instances are the front end to the appliance that hosts the Rails application in a Typo gem and uses MySQL for it's back end connectivity.  The entire stack is optimized, SMF enabled, and monitorable through DTrace.

This stack also includes, Mongrel, Mongrel_cluser, Thin, MySQL, sample SMF scripts, Git, gcc, and Sun Studio. This AMI is provided by Sun Microsystems and does not require registration. The exact versions are mentioned in the "Software versions" section below:


This AMI is for developers who wish to develop applications using the Ruby on Rails 2 web application framework, as a starting point for deploying Typo, or as a starter to create other architectures using the deployed service manifests as an example.

Ruby is available in /usr/ruby/1.8/bin(and symbolically linked from /usr/bin).

DTrace probes have been integrated into the Ruby source code, and this provide low overhead monitoring for your Rails application.

Software versions:

Rails 2.1.0 , 2.2.2, 2.3.2
Ruby 1.8.7 p72
Thin 0.8.2
Mongrel 1.1.5
Mongrel Cluster 1.0.5
MySQL 5.0.45
Git 1.5.6.5
gcc 3.4.3
GNU Make 3.81
All EC2 command-line API/AMI tools

Support:

For technical support during Beta period, please send emails to ec2-solaris-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM

For questions on Ruby and Rails in OpenSolaris, please contact webstack-discuss[AT]opensolaris[DOT]org

Please check OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 blog for latest updates and new information about OpenSolaris AMIs.
The "OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide" is located at:
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf

AMI ID:	ami-35ac4a5c
AMI Manifest:	sun-opensolaris-2008-11-hardened/hardened_2008.11_32_4.0.img.manifest.xml
AKI/ARI ID:	aki-6552b60c / ari-6452b60d
License:	Public

Description:

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Hardened OpenSolaris 2008.11 on Amazon EC2's cloud computing service. This 32-bit AMI gives you the power and security of OpenSolaris combined with the flexibility of Amazon's cloud computing service, and is optimized for for Amazon EC2's cloud computing environment.

The OpenSolaris system configuration has been adjusted to comply with the recommendations published by Sun and the Center for Internet Security, a non-profit organization charted to develop and encourage widespread use of security configuration benchmarks developed through a global consensus process involving participants from academia, industry and government. 

Working together for more than six years, Sun and the Center for Internet Security have consistently developed best-in-class, supportable and complete security hardening guidance for the Solaris operating system.

The latest version developed for the Solaris 10 operating system was completed with substantial contributions from Sun, CIS, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), as well as the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

Building upon this foundation, Sun and the Center for Internet Security collaborated to adapt the security recommendations published in the Solaris 10 Benchmark to the OpenSolaris operating system and document those changes specific to virtual machine images such as those available on Amazon EC2. 

All of the specific changes made to the base OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMI are discussed on the Sun OpenSolaris AMI Hardening Wiki : http://wikis.sun.com/display/ISC/OpenSolaris+AMI+Hardening

For more information on the Center for Internet Security's Solaris 10 Benchmark, see:
http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_solaris.html

The root file system is ZFS in this AMI and includes the pre-installed packages and tools necessary to get started with using OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2. You can obtain more details about the OpenSolaris project at http://www.opensolaris.org.

Also, just like in our previous AMIs, the "pkg image-update" command updates the kernel and ramdisk which is not allowed in Amazon EC2. Therefore, in order to prevent your instances from becoming non-compatible with the Amazon EC2 environment, we have disabled this command.

More details including re-bundling instructions can be found in the Getting Started Guide.


Support:

For technical support during the Beta period, please contact ec2­-solaris­-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.

Please check OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 blog for latest updates and new information about OpenSolaris AMIs.

The "OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide" is located at:
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf

Register for OpenSolaris AMIs here.

MediWiki AMI Now Available on Amazon EC2 in Europe! 

We are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest MediaWiki AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI and does not need registration.

Following are the details of this new AMI:

MediaWiki 32-bit AMI:

ami-59d5fd2d aki-661c3412 / ari-601c3414

Manifest: Mediawiki_2008.11_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml

To run this AMI in Europe, change the following environment variables before launching the AMI:

EC2_URL="https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com"
LOCATION="EU"

The other env variables remain the same.

NOTE:  a unique <your-keypair-name> must be generated for each region before launching an AMI.(Use ec2-add-keypair <name> > keypairfile after setting the above env variables).

AMI ID:	ami-9c0aedf5
AMI Manifest:	sun-osol-2008-11/Mediawiki_2008.11_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml
License:	Public

Description:

This 32 bit AMI is based on OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMP Stack AMI. Following components are
included in the AMI.

• MediaWiki 1.14 (pre-configured state)
  
• Apache 2.2
• MySQL 5.0
• PHP 5.2 (along with extensions like APC, DTrace, Suhosin, Memcache) runtime
• phpMyAdmin for administering MySQL database

Security Recommendations:

MediaWiki Installation/configuration pages can be accessible using public DNS address associated with the instance. It is recommended to configure Amazon EC2 firewall on port '80' to limit inbound connections.

Configuration:

• MediaWiki (bundled within this AMI in pre-configured state) is available under location /var/mediawiki-1.14
  

• MedaiWiki specific configuration for Apache Web Server is available within
  /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/wiki.conf.
  

• Users can launch and configure MediaWiki by accessing http://<DNS name associated with the instance> in their browser
  

• Apache and MySQL services are pre-configured to start on boot

• If you would like to use phpMyAdmin, you will need to do the following:

                  # cp /etc/apache2/2.2/samples-conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/

                  # svcadm restart http:apache22

• DTrace probes are available within Apache and PHP runtime. Sample DTrace scripts are available under /opt/DTT/

For more details on security information and image usage instructions, please refer to the '/root/ec2sun/
README' file.

AMP Stack File Layouts

	Apache	PHP	MySQL
Binary Runtime Files	/usr/apache2/2.2/bin	/usr/php/5.2/bin	/usr/mysql/5.0/bin
Configuration Files	/etc/apache2/2.2	/etc/php/5.2	/etc/mysql/5.0
Web Documents / Data Files	/var/apache2/2.2	/var/php/5.2	/var/mysql/5.0

Administering AMP Stack

Command	Apache	MySQL
Start Service	svcadm enable http:apache22	svcadm enable mysql:version_50
Stop Service	svcadm disable http:apache22	svcadm disable mysql:version_50
Restart Service	svcadm restart http:apache22	svcadm restart mysql:version_50

You can reset MySQL 'root' password by running following command:

# /usr/mysql/5.0/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p password '<MySQL password>'

It is highly recommended to secure your MySQL database by following the guidelines mentioned within MySQL 5 database documentation:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/security-guidelines.html

ZFS + EBS for MySQL

User can now take advantage of ZFS to manage EBS volumes and can store MySQL data on it. It may improve performance for certain workloads and database sizes.

For more information visit

• http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/ebs_is_supported_on_opensolaris

• http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-zfs.html
  

Documentation:

• For more information on MediaWiki , refer to its Getting Started Guide within -
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Contents
  

• For questions regarding Apache, MySQL and PHP runtime, please visit Web Stack Getting Started Guide for OpenSolaris 2008.11 athttp://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/Web+Stack+Getting+Started+Guide

• For general questions on OpenSolaris, please visit OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide:

  http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf

Support

• Register at http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/ to receive latest news on OpenSolaris AMIs

• For technical support during Beta period, please send emails to ec2-solaris-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.

• AMP Stack within OpenSolaris are delivered as part of WebStack project . For any questions related to these components, please write to webstack-discuss[AT]opensolaris[DOT]org
  

OpenSolaris AMI License for Amazon EC2
http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/license/ami/

OpenSolaris and MySQL are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or
its subsidiaries in the US and other countries.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is pleased to announce the release of 64-bit OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI On Amazon EC2's cloud computing service. This 64-bit AMI gives you the power and security of OpenSolaris combined with the flexibility of Amazon's cloud computing service, and is optimized for for EC2's cloud computing environment.

AMI Details:

AMI ID:	ami-4b638422
AMI Menifest:	sun-osol-2008-11/2008.11_64_1.0.img.manifest.xml
AKI/ARI ID:	aki-846483ed / ari-876483ee

This AMI supports 64-bit Instance sizes including m1.large (Large Instance Type), m1.xlarge (Extra Large Instance Type) and c1.xlarge (High CPU Extra Large Instance Type).

For more details on these instance types visit

• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?instance-types.html

• http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

To run the AMI with Large Instance type, execute following command.
ec2-run-instances ami-4b638422 -k <your-keypair> --instance-type m1.large

To run the AMI with Extra Large Instance type, execute following command.
ec2-run-instances ami-4b638422 -k <your-keypair> --instance-type m1.xlarge

To run the AMI with High CPU Extra Large Instance type, execute following command.
ec2-run-instances ami-4b638422 -k <your-keypair> --instance-type c1.xlarge

For OpenSolaris 2008.11 32bit base AMI, Please see
http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/opensolaris_2008_11_on_amazon

For Other AMIs provided by Sun Microsystems, Please see
http://blogs.sun.com/ec2/entry/opensolaris_based_ami_catalog_on

Configuring Swap Memory

OpenSolaris 2008.11 64 AMI Instance comes with default 586MB of swap memory.
Follow below given steps to increase the swap memory size by 15gb.

# zfs create -V 15g mnt/swap
# swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/mnt/swap

You can make this change permanent by changing the lines for swap in “/etc/vfstab” file.
change “/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap” to “/dev/zvol/dsk/mnt/swap” and save the file.

Finally Reboot the instance.

64-bit AMI Rebundling Changes:

Replace the ec2-bundle-image command in the Getting Started Guide (Page 10) with the following:

ec2-bundle-image -c $EC2_CERT -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY   \
  --kernel aki-846483ed --ramdisk ari-876483ee \
  --block-device-mapping "root=rpool/52@0,ami=0,ephemeral0=1,ephemeral1=2,ephemeral2=3,ephemeral3=4" \
  --user $EC2_USER_ACCOUNT_NUMBER --arch x86_64 \
  -i $DIRECTORY/$IMAGE -d $DIRECTORY/parts

Support:

• For technical support during Beta period, please contact ec2-solaris-support[AT]SUN[DOT]COM.
• Please check OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 blog for latest updates and new information about OpenSolaris AMIs.
• The "OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide" is located at:
  http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/amazon/Sun_AmazonEC2_GettingStartedGuide.pdf
• Register for OpenSolaris AMIs here.

GlassFish AMI Now Available on Amazon EC2 in Europe! 

We are very happy to broaden the availability of the latest GlassFish AMI on Amazon EC2 in the European Region. This AMI is based on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 base AMI and does not need registration.

Following are the details of this new AMI:

GlassFish 32-bit AMI:

ami-e8c1e99c aki-661c3412 / ari-601c3414

Manifest: sun-osol-2008-11-eu/Glassfish_2008.11_32_1.0.img.manifest.xml

To run this AMI in Europe, change the following environment variables before launching the AMI:

EC2_URL="https://eu-west-1.ec2.amazonaws.com"
LOCATION="EU"

The other env variables remain the same.

NOTE:  a unique <your-keypair-name> must be generated for each region before launching an AMI.(Use ec2-add-keypair <name> > keypairfile after setting the above env variables).

Announcing availability of new GlassFish AMIs based on OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMI.

OpenSolaris + GlassFish + MySQL

32-bit AMI: ami-a87b9cc1 aki-6552b60c ari-6452b60d

This 32bit AMI is based on OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMI and MySQL AMI. It contains Glassfish 2.1 binaries with MySQL Connector/J 5.1.  Glassfish 2.1 is deployed from JAR distribution in Developer profile. By default Glassfish 2.1 administartion required SSL mode, is enables only from CLI and localhost. Users should check /export/home/gf21 README files for post configurations (securing) directions. An existing user 'gf21' is authorized to manage the Glassfish 2.1 server.

Note:  Default Glasfish admin user password can be obtained from /root/ec2sun/README file

You need to reset default admin  password by following procedure in /export/home/gf21 README files

It is highly recommended to secure your Glassfish 2.1 server  by following the guidelines mentioned within Glassfish 2.1 server documentation - :
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Administration Guide >> Chapter 9 Configuring Security
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4335/ablnk?a=view


Administering Glassfish 2.1

Glassfish 2.1 installation is located under /opt/gf21 directory and is managed by gf21 user with home at /export/home/gf21

NOTE: You need to be user gf21 when administering Glassfish

Start Service     svcadm enable glassfish/domain1

Stop Service     svcadm disable glassfish/domain1

Check status    svcs glassfish/domain1

Start MySql

su - mysql;

svcadm enable mysql

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