Initializing help system before first use

Introduction

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS http://aws.amazon.com). Using either a web interface or a set of API calls the service allows to run virtual machines on the Amazon infrastructures. A virtual machine instance is started from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI): this is the image of the machine to run (it includes both the operating system and a set of pre-installed applications).

The AEC2 Mosel package is a subset of the AWS API for Mosel. It enables a model to:

  • manage basic AWS functionality like creating keys, defining security credentials, building AMIs, ...
  • start/stop and query the status of running virtual machines in the Cloud
  • start and use Mosel instances on virtual machines just like they were running on the local network (using the standard mmjobs functionality)

This package is also available as an extension to XPRD (Java version) with which a Java program using XPRD can manage instances created in EC2. This extension uses the same configuration files as the Mosel package.