Sun Microsystems and AWS

Sun Microsystems and Amazon Web Services have teamed up to provide you with the ability to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run several Sun platform technologies. Sun provides several Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to help you get started in minutes.

MySQL Enterprise

Sun Microsystems has enabled organizations and developers to use MySQL Enterprise running on Amazon EC2 on a subscription basis. With MySQL Enterprise, developers can cost-effectively deploy an open source database “in the cloud” with full software and production support by the database experts at MySQL. Amazon EC2 with MySQL Enterprise offers developers optimal performance, reliability, security, and uptime.

MySQL Enterprise






OpenSolaris

Using Amazon EC2 with OpenSolaris provides access to a robust open source operating system on a scalable, reliable, cost-effective virtual computing environment. Sun is offering a variety of OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMIs in the beta program (both 32-bit and 64-bit AMIs):
  • OpenSolaris 2008.11, GlassFish 2.1 and MysQL 5.1 AMI
  • OpenSolaris 2008.11, Drupal AMI
  • OpenSolaris 2008.11 Joomla AMI
  • OpenSolaris 2008.11 Webstack AMI
  • OpenSolaris 2008.11 MySQL AMI

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An updated list of AMIs is available on the OpenSolaris AMI Catalog This link will launch in a new browser window or tab.. Using OpenSolaris is free, you will only be charged for your use of Amazon Web Services and access to OpenSolaris 2008.11 AMIs requires no registration. These AMIs are available under the terms of Sun’s license agreement This link will launch in a new browser window or tab.. If you would like email updates from Sun regarding new AMIs as well as access to pre-2008.11 AMIs, complete this registration form This link will launch in a new browser window or tab..

The OpenSolaris for Amazon EC2 engineering team can help with any technical questions. Please send email to ec2-solaris-support@sun.com.

Glassfish Portfolio

Sun GlassFish™ Portfolio, based on the GlassFish application server, is a high-performance, open source, and comprehensive Web platform. The Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides the middleware software needed to deliver Web applications throughout the enterprise. As a complete, open-source application platform stack of components, GlassFish Portfolio on Amazon EC2 This link will launch in a new browser window or tab. can support smaller, low-cost deployments as well as extensive, mission-critical deployments – all at a simple, low and predictable cost.

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The Portfolio is divided into four components, serving four technology sub-areas:

  • Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server – A full Java EE application server with support for dynamic languages providing the foundation to develop and deploy next-generation applications and services.
  • Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – A core, standards-based integration platform for developing Web content and applications, including integration with back-end Web or legacy data.
  • Sun GlassFish Web Space Server – A new class of portal functionality for simplifying collaboration and the development of Web content.
  • Sun GlassFish Web Stack – An integrated stack of popular open-source, Web-tier infrastructure technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP, and Ruby optimized for the Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux platforms.
Sun is offering two GlassFish AMIs. Additional information on using these AMIs is available on the Sun Wiki This link will launch in a new browser window or tab..
  • OpenSolaris with GlassFish v2
  • Ubuntu 8.04 with Glassfish v2

OpenSSO

Sun OpenSSO Enterprise, a consistent leader in the Identity and Compliance space, provides a single solution for Web access management, federation, and Web services security. Sun is offering the following two categories of OpenSSO AMIs available on EC2 This link will launch in a new browser window or tab.:

OpenSSO Community release AMIs
  • OpenSolaris with GlassFish v2 and OpenSSO
  • Ubuntu 8.04 with Glassfish v2 and OpenSSO
  • Windows 2003 Server with Glassfish v2 and OpenSSO

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Commercial OpenSSO Enterprise release AMIs
  • OpenSolaris with GlassFish v2 and Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0
  • Ubuntu 8.04 with GlassFish v2 and Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0
  • Windows 2003 Server with Glassfish v2 and OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0

In addition to all the features and components of the Community release, the OpenSSO Enterprise 8 commercial release from Sun Microsystems comes with Authentication modules for RSA SecureID and RADIUS. Additional information on using these AMIs is available on the Sun Wiki This link will launch in a new browser window or tab..

OpenDS

Sun OpenDS Standard Edition is a comprehensive next generation directory service based on LDAP and DSML standards. As an essential element in the overall identity management infrastructure, this directory service helps enhance the availability, security, interoperability, and manageability of key identity data across the organization. The Sun OpenDS AMIs This link will launch in a new browser window or tab. are identical to those for OpenSSO, except that GlassFish is not required.


OpenDS Standard Edition


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Getting Started
  1. Sign up for Amazon EC2

  2. Refer to the Getting Started Guide for Amazon EC2. This link will launch a new browser window or tab.

  3. Use the AMIs for the respective technologies listed on this page.





Sun Support
Support is available through the Sun Developer Expert Assistance This link will launch a new browser window or tab. program, which includes incident or subscription-based online support services for developers.
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