Hi,

I am working for a scientific project and would like to use the Amazon EC2 to host the same.

Now, I was going through the existing AMIs to create my own, but I found one AMI in the community list of AMIs - which fits perfectly.

My question is the following - are the community AMIs safe? Is it possible for a malicious user to create an AMI in such a way that say the usernames/passwords etc can be sent to a remote server or something? Does Amazon do any sort of checking to make sure it cannot happen?

I couldnt find the answers to these in Amazon site. I am pretty sure that you guys would have felt the same issues - could you please provide your answers?

Regards

K