[ec2-beta] Equivilant VM appliances?

[Eric Hammond]

Darren:

It depends a bit on what your application does and what you are testing.
   It should be possible to build a near-identical image using the
vmbuilder in development.

There are parts of the EC2 environment which are difficult to replicate
(though I've heard good things about the Eucalyptus project in this
regard if you have spare hardware that you want to turn into an EC2 clone).

The cool thing about EC2 is that it's easy and cheap to do your testing
there.  Fire up an instance, try things out, and shut it down when the
test is done for a total cost often well under a dollar.

Plus, if things go wrong, you start up a fresh instance so you're always
testing from a clean install without having to worry about possibly
missing something you tweaked manually.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Darren Govoni wrote:
> Hi,
>    Are there VMware images that mirror the AMI's? I was thinking I 'd
> use one locally for some testing purposes before deploying into EC2.
> 
> Darren
> 
>