You can build your own kernel on Amazon EC2, so long as you pick the appropriate PV Grub kernel image.

The Amazon CloudFront Authentication Tool for Curl, cfcurl.pl is used to interface with the Amazon CloudFront service.

The Amazon CloudWatch Command Line Tool is used to interface with the Amazon CloudWatch service for setting alarms and getting metric statistics.

One of the big draws of services such as scalr and rightscale is the ability to manage clusters of high availability servers. However, these services cost money in addition to the infrastructure costs associated with using AWS. For this HowTo you will need:

• Amazon Auto Scaling Command Line Tools (How To Install)
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancer API Tools (How To Install)

The Amazon Elastic Load Balancing API Tools are used for setting up load balancers for your EC2 instances.