[CentOS-devel] Availability of CentOS 7/8 AMIs through AWS Marketplace

Tue Jul 28 16:42:28 UTC 2020
Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>

On 28/07/2020 09:59, Marc Jay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Long-time user of CentOS 7 AMIs from the AWS Marketplace. I see that the
> latest CentOS 7 and all CentOS 8 AMIs are only available outside of the
> Marketplace ("These images are published outside of the AWS Market Place
> and are shared directly" - https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS)
> 
> I'm really keen to understand if this is short-term situation, or if this
> is the indefinite future of CentOS AMI releases? There were a number of
> benefits to the Marketplace model - mainly for us is the ability to use
> Packer to fetch the latest AMI for the product code, plus also
> notifications. Are there reasons behind the recent change?

We're working to find a way forward w.r.t the AMP egagement - should
have some news on that front in the coming weeks/months.

in the mean time, we will continue to push images outside of the
marketplace, from the buildsystems that are updated on a predictable
cadence and with clear origin. I dont see that pattern going away for AWS.

regards