Getting Started in the Cloud Before you log in to the “Ubuntu in the Cloud” Web site, you should generate a set of SSH keys on the client (or set of clients) you'll use to administer the cloud ...

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 ...

And, the latter is the subject of this article. Recently, with the advent of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Canonical has added support for pre-baked Amazon EC2 images. This makes spinning up your own ...

If Linux dominated the world, I could use OpenSSH but business desktop reality still has Microsoft at its heart. Simon Tatham’s PuTTY is my favourite Windows SSH client. AWS people use PuTTY.