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As many of you have requested about how to create and manage Solaris zones/container within an instance of OpenSolaris running in Amazon EC2 environment. Our team member Sean O'Dell was able to put together a series of blog:

• Running OpenSolaris and Zones in the Amazon Cloud - Part 1

which will guide you through step by step instruction on how to create Solaris Zones in an OpenSolaris instance running in EC2. This brings in the best of virtualization features of OpenSolaris in the EC2 environment. If you have used the zones before you may be aware that there are virtually no cost of running zones on OpenSolaris.

We welcome your feedback and comment, if you have any problem following the blog please let us know so we can make it more clear.