[BBLISA] Amazon recommendation

[Rudie, Tony]

Great idea, Adam.

Bill LeFebvre and Marc Staveley gave an excellent tutorial at LISA 11 on how to use Amazon.  If anyone needs the slides let me know.  They're copyrighted under CC so I think it's fine to send copies.

 - Tony Rudié


-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Adam Moskowitz
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:20 PM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] seeking recommendations for Windows admin training

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:07:18PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> What I suggest is set up an inexpensive Core i5 or i7 desktop box with 16-32GB
> or so of RAM (choose a motherboard with at least 6 DIMM slots) so you can
> install a bunch of virtual machines. . . .

It's also possible to do much (all?) of this using Amazon EC2. It's
cheap, you don't have to buy your own hardware, and you don't have to
have a hot, noisy machine running in your house.

Yes, EC2 has Windows VMs.

At LISA, David Blank-Edelman talked about using EC2 to learn something
that required a bunch of machines and said his bill from Amazon was
fifteen cents.

Adam

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