[GRLUG] amazon EC2 and/or Eucalyptus?

[Steve Romanow]

I have an opportunity to do some cloud computing for a task that I need 
huge capacity for only once per year.

The process with run on rhel, but they are only certified for a very old 
version (EL3, or EL4 with EL3-compatibility).  The idea of using sth 
with a 2.4 kernel grates my nerves.

I know they are workign towards certifying for rhel 5.3, so I may get a 
pre-release.

Anyone have any experience with Eucalyptus or EC2, and does anyone thing 
RHEL 3 or 4 would be a showstopper in a vm?