On 07/05/2009, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@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