Mitiga, an Incident Readiness & Response company, is issuing a global advisory warning AWS customers running EC2 instances based on Community AMIs ...

Researchers said the AMI was removed from a customer’s Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance earlier this month but is still available within Amazon’s Community AMI marketplace.

The new AMI from ActiveState featuring ActivePython Business Edition provides access to Python database packages for Postgres, Oracle, SQLite and MS SQL in the Amazon EC2 environment.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

AWS will make an AMI from your snapshot with some behind-the-scenes tinkering. If you are used to VMware snapshots, you will find EC2 snapshots are not the same. Examine the original EC2 machine.

Those who use the AMIs will be able to take advantage of EC2 Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling and Reserved Instance pricing, along with other AWS-specific cloud technologies.

2. The version of Windows 2008 offered on EC2 is Microsoft Windows 2008 Datacenter R1 SP2 64-bit. The AMI is not supported as part of the 12-cents-per-hour AMI fee.

Mitiga, an Incident Readiness & Response company, is issuing a global advisory warning AWS customers running EC2 instances based on Community AMIs ...