Take the 2-minute tour ×  We are looking to move all of our
systems to a virtualized env.  We will be going with EC2 and it
appears that if we can install something like vmware or KVM on
EC2 then create VMs as needed it would be the most cost
effective solution for us.  Is this possible?   share|improve
this question add comment  2 Answers  As mentioned, EC2 is
already a virtualized environment. In fact, you can even convert
vmware images to AMI (The EC2 virtual machine format).
share|improve this answer add comment  EC2 is already a
virtualized environment; it uses the Xen virtualization manager,
which is an open source equivalent to VMWare server. You can
create VMs with EC2, customize them and save them as Amazon
Machine Images (AMIs).  See the Amazon documentation for a more
comprehensive introduction.  share|improve this answer add
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