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 ## Servers the EC2 way
 
-Creating a server on EC2 is very easy if you are willing to accept the defaults (the smallest server size, using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).
+Creating a server on EC2 is very easy if you are willing to accept the defaults (the smallest server size, using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). NOTE: the default EC2 image uses the 'ubuntu' username, rather than 'root' like other services.
 
     server = connection.servers.create