Amazon Desktop Images from Australia
The recent decision by Amazon to open a data centre in Sydney makes it more likely that you can create a "workable" desktop image on Amazon. My experience in the past was that the latency from Australia to external Data Centres was too high for a workable Desktop experience. By using Cloud Ping I can see that Sydney has a latency of about 30 ms, the others are between 200 ms and a very slow 350 ms. At 30 ms you can get a reasonable experience in a desktop environment. So how do you create this image ? Good question. I have seen numerous blogs on the internet about the process. The best one I found was here . It provides a step by step procedure for creating a desktop image on top of an image that does not contain a UI. Another approach is to use an existing image with the desktop already installed. You can find some of these here . This is not a bad approach, however remember you need to install no machine as a server ( and client ) to connect into your desktop. ...