Hello,

One of the first things you are likely to do when using a Windows AMI in Amazon EC2 is install some Windows Components. The most obvious would be a web server - IIS.

What you’ll find is that you’ll get prompted for a Windows installation CD. The way you give your Windows instance access to this CD is by creating an EBS volume from an Amazon snapshot.

Please see the video below for steps on how to do this.

One Response to “Installing Windows Components (i.e. IIS) on Amazon EC2”

1. Itamar Says:
   February 23rd, 2009 at 7:46 pm

   Thank you Eric. Perfect.