Build a dozen Amazon EC2 AMIs before lunch...

One button creation and publishing of Amazon Machine Images ready to boot in the EC2 cloud. What could be easier?

Here's a few samples, with more being created as you're reading this by members of the rBuilder Online developer community.

There's even a sample you can boot live and play with on rPath's dime: a MediaWiki appliance, no less. :-)

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.
• Select appliances will be available for "Try It Now on EC2" compliments of rPath

The barriers to scalable, maintainable computing fall ever lower.

Feedback on the AWS Dev Forums appreciated.