Ec2 Getting started

My notes on getting an Ec2 instance up and running.

I created the (free) Amazon Linux AMI.

This is a base linux distro, so you will need to install any extra software you need (e.g. in my case tomcat, jdk)

Install tomcat6
> sudo yum install tomcat6

Get JDK
wget http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/6u30/promoted/b10/binaries/jdk-6u30-ea-bin-b10-linux-amd64-25_oct_2011-rpm.bin

Install
chmod a+x ./jdk-6u30-ea-bin-b10-linux-amd64-25_oct_2011-rpm.bin
sudo ./jdk-6u30-ea-bin-b10-linux-amd64-25_oct_2011-rpm.bin

Start Tomcat
tbc