I’ve collected some useful information about cloud computing/amazon EC2 on the web

the amazon web services home
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361

the amazon web services blog
http://aws.typepad.com/

list of available public ami images
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=101

the amazon command line tools
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=351

a howto for working with the ec2 command line tools on osx (or any *nix)
http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/04/05/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-ec2

Architecture: Apache On Top Of Multiple Tomcat or JBoss Instances
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1084

elastic fox: the great firefox plugin for managing EC2 appliances
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609

a great howto for getting startet with elastic fox
http://arope99.blogspot.com/2008/05/getting-started-with-amazon-elastic.html

using capistrano for ec2
http://niblets.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/capistrano-ec2-sitting-in-a-tree-k-i-s-s-i-n-g/

capsize: capistrano tasks to manage amazon ec2
http://github.com/bschwartz/capsize/tree/master

a ruby gem for interacting with ec2: amazon-ec2
http://github.com/grempe/amazon-ec2/tree/master

Elastic IP Adress
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?categoryID=112&externalID=1346

Poolparty: open-source solution to balance, monitor and maintain your EC2 computing clouds.
http://poolpartyrb.com/

Rubber: multi-instance deployments of RubyOnRails applications to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud
http://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/wikis

cloudtools: Tools for leveraging Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) 
http://code.google.com/p/cloudtools/
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/CloudTools

Discussion about ubuntu ami images
http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu/msg/422f8c1b709390de

howto create a bucket on amazon s3 through irb (the ruby interactive shell)
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5441

more on s3 buckets
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html?UsingBucket.html

managing s3 with firefox: s3fox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247

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