Last year, I wrote an article on how to run Ubuntu 9.10 in the Amazon Elastic Cloud (LJ, May 2010). But, the folks over at Canonical haven't been sitting on their laurels during the past year. They're ...

And, the latter is the subject of this article. Recently, with the advent of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Canonical has added support for pre-baked Amazon EC2 images. This makes spinning up your own ...