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Euca2ools for Debian
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When installing this package, you may have heard about the concept of cloud computing
which was brought to considerable attention by the internet merchant Amazon and their EC2
(elastic compute cloud) and S3 (storage) services. The Eucalyptus team provides such
services themselves, too, but with an Open Source infrastructure, while achieving a binary
compatibility with the Amazon API as an independent development.
The basic concept behind the here represented concept of clouds is to have remote storage
space in the cloud. That arbitrary data may also be bootable disk images, and the EC2
functionality means to start one or multiple instances of these. The images are not
necessarily provided by the respective user themselves, but they may instead be shared in
communities. As such, clouds may be perceived as a continuation of the community-driven
Linux distributions.
This package provides the functionality to control disk images, i.e. to upload, start or
stop them. Their initial preparation however is performed by different means, e.g. by the
package vmbuilder or publicly shared scripts on the internet.
See also
* http://open.eucalyptus.com/
* http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
* http://alestic.com/
* vmbuilder (Debian/Ubuntu packages)
* http://wiki.debian.org/Cloud
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