Does Amazon EC2 install installation tools?

Question

In the case of dedicated servers, we are allowed to install any software. Does an instance of Amazon EC2 allow tools to be installed?

Answer 1

Yes, EC2 is like a virtual machine that creates your own specification and then asks for copies of it to run Amazon.

There is a lot of information on this site:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs

Answer 2

Yes, EC2 provides the same thing as a dedicated server, and you can replicate the image and run multiple instances.

Answer 3

Your question has already been answered. But even to illustrate the point further. Amazon EC2 lets you customize your own operating system.

As far as I can tell, this should be a unix / linux operating system, but you can go as far as creating your own kernel

endless possibilities here.