[CentOS-virt] CentOS 7 AMI on AWS GovCloud region

Sat Oct 3 00:38:44 UTC 2015
Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> On 28/09/15 14:55, Patrick Varilly wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on building a cluster on AWS atop CentOS 7.  For
>> development, I've been working in the eu-west-1 (Ireland) region, where
>> the AWS MarketPlace provides an official CentOS 7 AMI (ami-e4ff5c93).
>> However, the production deployment is taking place in AWS's GovCloud
>> region for regulatory reasons, and there, I couldn't find an official
>> CentOS 7 AMI.
>>
>> Are there plans to provide an official CentOS 7 AMI for the GovCloud
>> soon?  Or instructions on how the official AMIs are built?  I'm happy to
>> help build an AMI for public use following the instructions if someone
>> can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>
> let me bring this up with the amp folks and see what they say, i bet the
> govcloud needs a lot more paperwork etc to get setup from our side. but
> lets find out,

I'm curious, too. I'd like to encourage making the basic AMI's a bit
larger, and activating enhanced networking by default fore the CentOS
6 and CentOS 7 public AMI's.