# Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2 - Host: [gigaom.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/gigaom.com/) - Saved: May 5, 2008 (2008-05-06T03:36:38Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9498cad9331d/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9498cad9331d.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) During our on-stage chat at Startup Camp, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at some big news involving Amazon and its web services. Today, the company officially announced: Suns OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2. These developments are meant to address the needs and complaints of the developer community. OpenSolaris, which comes with tools such as ZFS and Dynamic Tracing (D-Trace), will be offered for free, in contrast to some Linux offerings that cost money. For instance, if you sign up for EC2 and pick RedHat, it costs $19. ZFS allows instant rollback and continual check-summing capabilities, something developers have found lacking in the EC2 platform. This OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2 beta is currently available by invitation only. Some software vendors, including GigaSpaces, Rightscale, Thoughtworks and Zmanda, are already offering their solutions via Amazon Machine. From OStatic: As Sun Microsystems JavaOne conference kicks off this week, the company has announced its free new OpenSolaris open source operating system. Its available for download . The big question with OpenSolaris is how it may compete against Linux rivals, especially since it is a fully supported operating system. OStatic, our open source blog, has the details. If this story interests you then you should definitely check out our upcoming conference, Structure 08. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) - Wayback Machine: first captured May 2008, 42 captures ## Same host - [Traditional Media Companies Fight The 'Lumbering Giant' Tag](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a7834b85ae10/) (gigaom.com, April 29, 2008) - [Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b0b2ef5c6c05/) (gigaom.com, May 7, 2008) - [WSJ Plans Closer Ties With London Times; May Offer Business Tools](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cdaa01ad2a7d/) (gigaom.com, May 7, 2008) - [Minneapolis Star-Tribune Owner Avista Writes Down 75 Percent Of Investment; Falling Knife, Anyone?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cdb8727fe628/) (gigaom.com, May 7, 2008) - [One to Watch: Delish](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/77c22ed08528/) (gigaom.com, May 7, 2008) ## Saved the same week - [Become a ProBlogger Premium Sponsor](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4cafdd858040/) (problogger.net, May 5, 2008) - [MinneBarSessions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7d587febeb53/) (barcamp.org, May 5, 2008) - [The Motley Fool: Will Microsoft be brave enough to bail on Zune?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3e127c1935c3/) (macdailynews.com, May 6, 2008) - [Test-driving VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/337d5f0e1288/) (lifehacker.com, May 7, 2008) - [Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b0b2ef5c6c05/) (gigaom.com, May 7, 2008) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/amazon-opensolaris-on-ec2/