Hi CS,
those are all good questions and I asked quite similar ones already half a year ago:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2013-February/003190.html
And apart from me, also other people raised the same issue, e.g. here:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2013-June/003334.html
Or here:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6228
Unfortunately, the situation appears to not have changed until today. So the AMIs seem to not be available outside the AWS marketplace, you can't get any instance-backed AMIs from the AWS marketplace and you also cannot convert the EBS-backed AMIs from the marketplace to instance-backed AMIs on your own because of the marketplace product license restrictions.
It would be a cool thing to have official, instance-backed CentOS AMIs for AWS. But somehow, I've lost hope a bit meanwhile...
Best regards, Michael
Quoting CS cove_s@yahoo.com:
Hi folks,
I had a few questions in regards to the CentOS AMI:
Are there instance backed versions of the AWS marketplace CentOS builds? It looks like there might have been at one point, but I'm not seeing them now, and since they're marked as being from the marketplace we're having some difficulties attaching the volumes to another system to create an instance backed version of it. Any ideas?
Is it possible to download the AMI from somewhere and re-upload them so they don't have the Marketplace restrictions? I checked cloud.centos.org, but it seems like they files there haven't been updated in a while.
It's my understanding that projectraindrops.net was used to build the AMIs, is it possible to run that service locally?
Thanks!
cs