OpenSolaris Web Stack images are now available on Amazon EC2

If you want to quickly host a website running on Joomla or Drupal - or even a wiki based on MediaWiki - on enterprise quality OS like OpenSolaris- that too without any initial overhead investment (sounds too good to be true ?) - check out our recently uploaded 32-bit OpenSolaris 2008.05 based images for Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) environment. Some time back , I mentioned here on the different ways to try out OpenSolaris . Now, these AMI's allows you to try out cool features within OpenSolaris like ZFS, DTrace, IPS even without a Live CD...

If you are already an Amazon EC2 customer or familiar with Amazon's cloud offering - you can skip these introductions and head out to the list of OpenSolaris based Amazon machine images(AMI).Read on for a quick intro on Amazon EC2 and how to get started..

How to get started with Amazon EC2:

Visit Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web site for information on pricing as well as to open Amazon Web Services account and to sign up for Amazon EC2 web service.
Check out Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide for detailed setup instructions. You might also want to check out 'Introduction and FAQ' forum posting on Amazon Web Services developer forums.
Now, you will need to register with Sun to get access to 32-bit OpenSolaris images by filling this form.
Finally, you can use Amazon EC2 tools as described within Getting Started Guide to launch these 32-bit OpenSolaris AMI's.