Elastic Fox for Cloud

ElasticFox is plugin for firefox to manage Amazon EC2 Instances. IA Windows EC2 Instance will be created and I will connect to it from windows machine.To connect to other AMI’s like Ubuntu from windows requires a slightly different procedure.

The plug in can be installed by running the XPI file here. Click install and restart Firefox when prompted. To launch the plug in go to Tools-> Elastic Fox.

Create an instance following the steps below:-

Enter your Credentials ( Identifying Name, Secret Key and Password)
Go to Group Tab and Click Add. Give a Group Name and Select Basic which allows ( SSH and RDP Requests ).
After This is added. Select the new group click Green Check on group permissions and select protocol HTTP and click on get my network range to enable access within this range.

Click on Images Tab, you will see all images available . Select one ” I selected Public Windows”. Right Click and Select “Start”. Select the Key and Move the Security group over and click ok. You can select instance types Overview of Amazon Instance Types here. The default instance is M1 for Windows ( C Drive 10gb, D drivd 146gb) with 2 GB Ram.

If you are using Windows, please right click on the instance, and select Show Console Output”. When the text “Windows is ready to use” appears, your instance is ready to use!.
Sample Console Output
"4/22/2009 2:10:20 PM: Message: Ec2Config Service is rebooting the instance. Please be patient.
4/22/2009 2:11:20 PM: Message: Windows is Ready to use"To connect to the Instance

Right Click on Instance and Get Administrator Password.
Get the Public DNS Name and User Remote Desktop to Connect to the Server.
Enter the User Name as “Administrator” and password and you will be able to login into Amazon EC2 Windows System.
That is all you need to do to access a machine on the cloud.

Please note

Anything you do on the server will not be saved if you restart instance without saving it on Amazon S3.
Dont forget to terminate the instance, you will charged if you leave instance running.
Windows Instance m1.1 has the following specifications. C Drive is 10gb and D drive is 146gb