Cross browser testing is always a pain to coordinate but at least it just got a lot less expensive. Amazon Web Services just released AMIs running Windows which means that you can now get Windows virtual machines for as little as $0.125 per hour. These beasties make great platforms for doing cross browser testing. The only hassle was that the default AMI only had IE7 installed on it.
I said “was” because I have created a new, public AMI with six browsers installed on it: IE7, IE6, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Opera 9, Safari 3.1, and Google Chrome 0.3. You are welcome to use it for free (well… you do have to pay Amazon their whopping 12.5 cents per hour). I hope it makes your web site testing life a bit easier.
Details at my Hen’s Teeth Network web site.
