If you are interested in running Nexus and Hudson on Amazon’s Elastic Computing (EC2) service, there is now a public image that contains Maven, Nexus, Hudson, and the OpenJDK. If you use Amazon’s easy-to-use AWS Console, running a state-of-the-art build service with Nexus and Hudson is one click away. Here are the details for those of you interested in running Nexus and Hudson on the cloud:
- Manifest: sonatype-images/nexus-os-1.3.4_hudson-20090608.manifest.xml
- AMI ID: ami-7314f21a
- Operating System: Fedora Core 8
- Platform: i386
Launch it. In minutes, you will have a capable build server. Read more to find out about some suggested next steps to secure your new build server.

