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Converting a VirtualBox VM to an EC2 AMI

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Simon

There are many ways to create a new AMI for use with Amazon EC2, the best solution is to simulate EC2 with a local Xen install, however this sometimes isn’t possible, so the next best thing is to create a … Continue reading →

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EC2 Micro Instance Clock Drift

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Simon

Recently I’ve been experimenting with the Amazon Free Tier micro instances (one is running this blog). After running an instance for a few days I noticed that the clock seems to drift quite heavily ( more than 10 minutes over … Continue reading →

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