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Tag: Kernel Virtual Machine

Three EC2 instances are connected to an AWS subnet. There's an overlay network that spans all three instances.The router instance connects the overlay network to the AWS subnet. The management instance contains the CloudStack management service, which is attached to the overlay network. The host instance contains the CloudStack agent and some VMs, all of which are connected to the overlay network.

Building a Cloud in the Cloud: Running Apache CloudStack on Amazon EC2, Part 2

This blog is written by Mark Rogers, SDE II – Customer Engineering AWS. In part 1, I showed you how to run Apache CloudStack with KVM on a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. That simple setup is great for experimentation and light workloads. In this post, things will get a lot more […]

EC2 instance summary info showing 1 instance, CentOS 7 (x86_64) AMI, c5.metal instance type, a security group name, and a 500 GiB volume

Building a Cloud in the Cloud: Running Apache CloudStack on Amazon EC2, Part 1

This blog is written by Mark Rogers, SDE II – Customer Engineering AWS. How do you put a cloud inside another cloud? Some features that make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) secure and wonderful also make running CloudStack difficult. The biggest obstacle is that AWS and CloudStack both want to manage network resources. Therefore, we must […]