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<li>
<a href="#ctxagent">What is the Context Agent</a>?
</li>
<li>
<a href="#ec2-backend">What is the EC2 backend</a>?
</li>
<li>
<a href="#defcloudkit">What is the cloudkit</a>?
</li>
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</p>
</li>

<li>
<p>
<a name="ec2-backend"> </a>
<b>What is the EC2 backend? _NAMELINK(ec2-backend)</b>
</p>

<p>
This is a workspace service backend that serves as a portal to
the Amazon <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2">Elastic Compute
Cloud</a> (EC2).
</p>

<p>
It allows clients to boot virtual machines in the Amazon
cloud using grid protocols and their X509 credentials, first
passing through the service's authorization and accounting layers.
</p>

<p>
The EC2 gateway provides:
</p>

<div class="uldonotmoveleft">
<ul>
<li>
The ability to run any public Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
image on Amazon as well
as whatever AMIs the workspace service's credentials have
access to privately.
</li>
<li>Asynchronous WSN notifications about status (EC2 does not,
it relies on polling)</li>
<li>Adjustment of the root account's SSH pubkey authorized_keys
("personalization") on the VM</li>
<li>Running time enforcement</li>
<li>It makes the public IP address of the VM known to you via
resource property when the address becomes available (on
EC2 this is known only after it begins to run).</li>
<li>Detailed accounting that the authorization layer can use
to make decisions based on a client's current aggregate
and reserved usage.
</li>
</ul>
</div>

<p>
This code is not in a current release, but it is currently
<a href="deployments/index.html#teraport-ec2">deployed</a>.
</p>

<p>
EC2 currently provides
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=370375011">five allocation types</a>.
</p>
</li>

<li>
<p>
<a name="defcloudkit"> </a>
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