I set up my command line tools with a little help from Robert Sosinski’s blog which I think lays things out a little more clearly than Amazon’s instructions.

I’ve abandoned for now using Elastic Fox, my brain needs to wrap around how the back end really works before I can start using a GUI….that’s just the way I roll I guess. So I started searching around for a good AMI to use. It seems that amazon hasn’t really updated their public AMIs, so the Fedoras are a bit out of date.

I noticed that Sun has OpenSolaris on a few AMIs, it requires you to register but the terms of use don’t seem to ridiculous; essentially it says you’re only going to use OpenSolaris on EC2…which is true…I’m not going to install Solaris on any of my machines. Apparently once Solaris approves my use of the AMI I can start playing around. That seems a bit absurd. But I did find a very basic AMI that’ll I’ll generally be happy with playing around with: AMP stack AMI on OpenSolaris provided by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

So now I’ll just play around with the commandline tools and see what I can get. Hopefully Sun will approve me soon….