This article discusses how one works with machines provisioned in Amazon EC2 using Lumino, X Platform's management-and-monitoring server as a controller. When working with machines provisioned using Amazon EC2, one provisions, deploys, configures and controls X applications using Lumino. Applications can be run on the controller machine (depending on its capacity) or additional machines can be provisioned and the controller machine configured to be able to deploy and control applications on the provisioned machine.
See The Lumino EC2 Controller AMI Manual page for general instructions on how to set up a Lumino Server on EC2.
The sections below provides some useful tips and tricks for further customizing Lumino installations in EC2.
Set the timezone
Amazon's guide to time/timezone setup can be found at: AWS Set Time
Here are the condensed steps:
For developers
update jre to jdk
This is optional but will get you tools such as jmap, jhat, jps, etc.
Since this is for developers, you can't blindly follow these steps. Instead, they outline the work you have to do
First, shut down all running java processes
next, remove old java versions:
JDK
install JDK 8
restart services: