Amazon EC2 support

We can deploy IBM Security Identity Manager to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment.

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides.

• Scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud
• Capability to deploy an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Deploying IBM Security Identity Manager to Amazon EC2 involves the following processes.

1. Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the appliance VHD image.
2. Launch an instance of the AMI in Amazon EC2.

For details about how to use the Amazon EC2 command line interface to launch an instance, see Launch an Instance Using the Amazon EC2 CLI.

• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) file
  Upload the appliance VHD image to Amazon EC2 and create an AMI so that it can be deployed in Amazon EC2.
• Launch the appliance AMI
  Launch an instance of the appliance AMI to run the appliance in Amazon EC2.

Parent topic: Installation of ISIM virtual appliance