I need to install linux from existing VMware VMDK on EC2. For first time I can do this manually, later I will need to do this in automated way.
Could you please help me with link to relevant documentation. Also any tips and experiences are welcome.
Why do I need this? At my company developers and QA are running our PHP apps on a virtual machine hosted on local machine. We want to move these virtual machines to the cloud, so each developer can easily set up a sandbox in simple web interface.
Follow the instructions of creating your own AMI. Also check out the following articles on EBS volumes: article1, article2. Here's some steps on how to create EBS-backed AMI instance.