We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Official CentOS-6 images on Amazon's EC2 Cloud. Release Notes are available at http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS There are a few getting started guides in the CentOS wiki, linked from the AWS Release Notes page. The CentOS Market Place page can be found at : https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/seller-profile/ref=srh_res_product_vendor?id=16cb8b03-256e-4dde-8f34-1b0f377efe89 ---------------------- CentOS-6 x86_64 with updates : https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A6KUVBW CentOS-6 i386 with updates : https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A6KZBC6 CentOS-6.3 x86_64 without updates : https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A6L6F9I CentOS-6.3 i386 without updates : https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A6L0O04 Notes: * CentOS AWS Images are released as AMI's that use the grub bootloader, and therefore retain the ability to run and update the standard CentOS kernel. * These images are available across all regions and all availability zones supported by AWS. * The images have no extra charges to use. * t1.micro instance of these images are suitable for the free usage tier at AWS. * Only a minimal package set is included in the images to keep size down and allow maximum flexibility in deployment roles. *IMPORTANT* The images are released with two sets of release tags. Images tagged as -6- are updated, most current images that we recommend everyone use. The other set of images are tagged as -6.3- and represent package sets at 6.3 release time. More details about this can be found on the Release Notes page at http://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS ---------------------- About the CentOS Cloud SIG We are a group of people looking to address issues and help people with CentOS adoption in the cloud. Both as a cloud platform and as consumer images. A small but growing group, we hang out on the CentOS Virt list ( http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt ) and on the #centos-virt irc channel. Everyone with an interest in CentOS, Virtualisation, Cloud and related technologies is welcome to join in. These AWS images are developed, curated and released as a part of the CentOS Cloud SIG efforts. ---------------------- I'd like to thank everyone who helped with this release including the guys at AWS Marketplace. Tru Huynh for all the work helping with the image builds, the automation, testing and release work. Aaron Dunlop for testing and writing the Amazon CLI page in the wiki, JP Mens for his testing work and his Ansible page contribution in the wiki. Fabian Arrotin, James B. Byrne, Matthew Li, Steve Jones and Rajen V for their help with testing and feedback. Enjoy! -- Karanbir Singh, The CentOS Project +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS