Appliances in the Cloud 

rPath’s rBuilder™ supports the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) from Amazon Web Services. rPath’s integration with Amazon EC2 marks the first time that software appliances have been combined with an on-demand computing infrastructure.

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides re-sizable compute capacity on Amazon’s distributed servers — a true virtual computing environment for running applications.

When an ISV couples a software appliance with an on-demand compute infrastructure such as Amazon EC2, it can provide customers with a total solution without investing in a datacenter. 

Try it now with the rPath MediaWiki Appliance.

How Does it Work? 

It works like this:

• A developer or ISV uses rBuilder to build an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that automatically gets uploaded to the EC2 registry as a public AMI.
  
• Anyone with an EC2 account can find, access and launch that appliance in the cloud.
  

If you do not have an Amazon EC2 account, then you can try select appliances now compliments of rPath on rBuilder Online. These appliances will launch on EC2 in one click.

Try it now with the rPath MediaWiki Appliance.

View the list of appliances available as Amazon Machine Images.

Read how to set up an Amazon EC2 account and use rBuilder AMIs.