Cisco on the Amazon EC2 cloud

September 28, 2009

I’ve been working on virtualizing a cisco router on the cloud so that I can tunnel vpn traffic from one network to the other. The initial goal was to get a virtual Cisco router working on the cloud.

To get this going, I have the Cisco IOS 12.4 and was planning on running it off of GNS3, which is a front-end UI to Dynamips. I have most of my servers with Rackspace, but for this project, I was working with a server on the Amazon EC2. Below is a snapshot of what I was trying to accomplish.