Solitaire on EC2 – Windows Server Available
Amazon announced the availability of their Windows Server 2003 AMI’s. Read more at Amazon EC2 Running Microsoft Windows Server. The current version of Elasticfox has the new API built in, so it was a good experiment to try it out too. Read through the links below to quickly get your Windows instance up. I went with the most basic 32 bit version available for my solitaire test. Click on any of the images for a larger version.
- Amazon Public Images – Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit)
- Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Running Windows
- Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2
- Elasticfox Getting Started Guide
- CoRD: Remote Desktop for Mac OS X
Once you read the directions and get your instance started, you can use your favorite Remote Desktop client to access your instance:
The new API allows you to get the administrator password. Log in as Administrator with the password you get back and you’re greeted with the desktop.
Big deal? I want to play solitaire on it. Oh, it doesn’t come with Solitaire, you’ll have to supply that yourself (Thanks Gmail for not letting me send Windows executables). It also seems that they don’t provide an easy way to access the installation media for Windows either (Not that I could install it from the install media if I wanted to, and I’ll probably be proven wrong on this anyhow).
Wasn’t that exciting? ec2kill time.