[CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

[Michael Simpson]

On 07/05/2009, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Jason Aubrey wrote:
> > I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all
> > the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin.
> > I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it
> > were represented in an official way.
>
> I started talking to Amazon about this a long time back ( early Feb 2008
>  - refer to posts on the centos-virt list ) and was quite interested in
> making things easier for people who might want to use CentOS images on
> EC2 - and their response at the time was semi-warm. After a few emails
> to and fro, I even agreed ( against usual principles ) to sign a NDA
> that they sent over so that we could move the situation forward.
> However, their continued attitude to the issue amounted to : go away, we
> dont care about you so stop wasting our time. Another way to interpret
> it is : give us loads of money and we'll talk to you, till then, stop
> wasting our time.
>
> So, unless they are happy to come back and start talking to us again I
> highly recommend everyone not bother using EC2.
>

yeah, we played around with it for a while and still use it for the
occasional demo.
It is a bit of a chore creating a machine image form one of your
servers but once it is done then that is that.
-unless your image is using one of the public ip addresses that has
made it onto a blacklist.
We find the s3 file storage and cloudfront content delivery service
much more useful.

mike