X.509 certificates are one type of security credential for use with Amazon Web Services; they are used for making SOAP requests to AWS service APIs. If our account is not an IAM user, Amazon can generate one for us on their Security Credentials page. If our account is an IAM user, we will have to generate our own X.509 certificate; this article shows how to do that.

By default (out of the box?) XenCenter on windows can’t take snapshots of running XCP VMs, even though you can do this from the command line. Here’s how to fix that with two commands!

It’s necessary to have a key pair on Amazon EC2 in order to access the instances we run. Here we talk about how to create these key pairs.

The IAM Command Line Toolkit is used to interface with Amazon’s Identity and Access Management service. This service is used to manage your users access to AWS services and resources; it allows for creation of users and groups under your AWS account.

This advanced guide will help you migrate your existing infrastructure to AWS EC2 in situ - that is, while the VM instance is running in your datacenter. There are a few requirements: