EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances today Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 ...

In this excerpt from A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mark Sobell explains how to start a virtual Linux system in the cloud using Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud).

Although Amazon makes it relatively easy to fine-tune the instance configuration process, there is often quite a bit of work that must be done after a new instance has been created. Such tasks are ...