Informix advanced support engineer Yunming Wang has recently published a developerWorks article on getting started with and using the Amazon Web Services Informix machine images: Informix application development and testing on the cloud - Using IBM Informix Dynamic Server and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

 

In a succinct 7-page tutorial style Yunming covers the steps from signing in for the first time, launching an Informix image, connecting using SSL, starting a VNC server, and getting to know the application development components provided with the Informix images.