Citrix C3 Lab and Amazon EC2
The Citrix C3 Lab leverages Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Citrix C3 (Citrix Cloud Center) to provide a preconfigured environment for IT professionals to prototype cloud solutions with no additional fees beyond the normal AWS usage charges. C3 Lab users will have access to the Citrix applications listed below, allowing them to test application compatibility, application staging, and gain overall experience of running Citrix solutions in AWS. To ensure users take full advantage of the Citrix C3 Lab, Citrix also provides Citrix C3 Lab Blueprints that walk users through the basic steps on how to start these Citrix applications in Amazon EC2.

Citrix C3 Lab and Amazon VPC
Citrix C3 Lab is now supported on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2, and will integrate with other AWS services in the future. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no long-term contracts, minimum spend or up-front investments required. With Amazon VPC, you pay only for the resources you use.

With Amazon VPC and Citrix, customers can access Citrix products and add server and storage capacity on demand. For example, XenApp customers seeking to increase server capacity can rapidly add servers via Amazon VPC to a new or existing XenApp environment. By adding Access Gateway to the environment through the Amazon VPC, XenApp customers benefit from heightened security. By making Citrix Repeater accessible via the Amazon VPC, customers benefit from data-transfer efficiency and even lower costs.

To assist Amazon VPC beta users, Citrix provides Citrix C3 Lab Blueprints with architectural diagrams, deployment guides, and best practices for deploying Citrix C3 products in the Amazon VPC.

The Development Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) Citrix provides:

Citrix Applications
Learn more about the Citrix applications that will be available in the Amazon EC2 environment:

Bringing Your Own Licenses
If you are an existing Citrix customer, your licenses are valid when deployed on Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC, providing you the flexibility to create more complex deployments with your custom-built and licensed applications. A support forum is also available.

Citrix C3 Lab Community Resources