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 at 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