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Is it possible to roll my own Amazon Machine Image with a pre-Windows 2003 OS?

I've been researching EC2 over at Amazon Web Services and the website notes:

"You are also empowered to use our
bundling tools to upload your own
operating systems."

Now I've been trying to find out if the only Windows version that is supported is Windows Server 2003 or if I would be able to virtualize an older version of Windows and mash it into an AMI?

Is that possible?
Has anyone achieved it?

Solution

  • EC2 only allows you to bundle your own open source *nix operating systems. They won't let you run your own copy of Windows because of licensing issues.