My AWS Musings

Enabling remote desktop on an ubuntu ec2 instance is pretty easy by using NX. We will use FreeNX at the server and NoMachine NX client on the client machine. NX is a much better alternative to VNC. You can install NoMachine client on windows, mac or linux. For more information visit http://www.nomachine.com

Recently Amazon launched RDS – Relational Database Service. Before Amazon offered this service, we had a MySQL configured on an ec2 instance. We needed one more database in cloud. Which way did we go? In this article, I have tried to compare both the options.