Thank you for your reply. I was able to import a GenericCloud raw image into EC2 and run successfully. This satisfies my concern of having Marketplace codes attached to EBS volumes. For the compliance portion of my question, on how the GenericCloud images were created; I see that this point is being discussed in https://github.com/CentOS/sig-cloud-instance-build/issues/11. I can continue this portion of the conversation in GitHub. Alan On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 11/02/16 01:59, Jeremy Voorhis wrote: > > As a long-time user, I second Alan's concerns. Reproducibility of cloud > > images doesn't seem to be a priority for the major distros, and at best, > > the marketplace throws up a roadblock requiring acceptance through the > > AWS dashboard when setting up a new account. > > Couple of things here.. > > the CentOS AMI's are just the GenericCloud image imported into a block > device and registered as an AMI. there is no magic beyond that. > > Secondly, the AMIs are hosted in a vendor environment, we only started > publishing there once the Amazon folks were willing to reach out and > help endorse our existence - and the mechanics they recommend ( and > well, highly encourage ) from our side is participation in the Market > Place. I've been repeatedly told by them that the best user experience > in their infra is via the market place. > > In the mean time I've been experimenting with generic AMIs, cross copied > over to othr regions and available in the public catalogue for the > CentOS Atomic Host, and have noticed far more people asking for it in > the Marketplace than folks asking for the CentOS Cloud image outside the > marketplace. Admittedly, this is no metric and most conversations are > face2face or over private email(ugh!), but its a thing. > > Let me circle back and in the next monthly build we do, I can also > publish some AMIs outside of the marketplace and see what we get from > there. > > In the mean time, if anyone can help open channels with Digital Ocean > and Linode, so we can help them run updated images, in line with the > rest of the vendors - would be very appreciated. > > regards, > > -- > Karanbir Singh > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20160211/1073fe1e/attachment-0008.html>