Point n Click guide to running Ubuntu in the Cloud | Linux Today

Point n Click guide to running Ubuntu in the Cloud

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 1, 2010

[ Thanks to Ahmed Kamal for this
link. ]

“My previous post about running uec on ec2, drew some
comments as being a fairly complex process. That may be true
because essentially you’re attempting to hack together a
configuration which is not entirely supported. Anyway, that led me
to want to demo a “point-n-clink” guide to running your first
Ubuntu server in the EC2 cloud. i.e. no command line allowed, just
point and click 🙂 It doesn’t get any easier than this, so let’s
hit it

“Assuming you have setup an account with Amazon and could login
to the Amazon console, you should see…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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