You need to do some things before you can use the Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud:

1) Visit http://aws.amazon.com/ to create an Amazon AWS account.

2) Obtain your AWS public key and secret key to use with the EC2 service.

3) Create AMIs and use them as needed.

   DISCLAIMER: You are responsible for paying Amazon to use the EC2
               service, unless you are signed up for the AWS Free Usage
               Tier. More information about the Free Usage Tier may be
               found at: http://aws.amazon.com/free/