Available AMI's

Latest AMI list is available on download page.

Additional steps

You need to run only one management appliance. You can run multiple front-end and back-end appliances.

Make sure you provide your EC2 credentials as user  data to launch management-appliance. If you don't do this it'll boot,  but it will not be able to discover other appliances (and form a cluster). To inject credentials encode with base64 following string:

access_key: YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key: YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
bucket: YOUR_BUCKET_NAME

You can find your credentials on your AWS account security page. We recommend you choose bucket you not use for other services. If you don't have a bucket simply create one.

S3_PING has now a known bug when it tries to create a new bucket. There is a workaround for this: create bucket yourself (using S3Fox for example). After this you can use it in your cluster.

To encode this string you can use for example this page. Passing this data to management-appliance is really simple. If  you're using Amazon  AWS Management Console, just put your encoded string into User Data field as shown below:

Warning

Do not check base64 encoded checkbox! This  will encode it one more time and your management appliance won't be  able to discover other nodes!