On 07/05/2009, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Jason Aubrey wrote: > > I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all > > the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin. > > I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it > > were represented in an official way. > > I started talking to Amazon about this a long time back ( early Feb 2008 > - refer to posts on the centos-virt list ) and was quite interested in > making things easier for people who might want to use CentOS images on > EC2 - and their response at the time was semi-warm. After a few emails > to and fro, I even agreed ( against usual principles ) to sign a NDA > that they sent over so that we could move the situation forward. > However, their continued attitude to the issue amounted to : go away, we > dont care about you so stop wasting our time. Another way to interpret > it is : give us loads of money and we'll talk to you, till then, stop > wasting our time. > > So, unless they are happy to come back and start talking to us again I > highly recommend everyone not bother using EC2. > yeah, we played around with it for a while and still use it for the occasional demo. It is a bit of a chore creating a machine image form one of your servers but once it is done then that is that. -unless your image is using one of the public ip addresses that has made it onto a blacklist. We find the s3 file storage and cloudfront content delivery service much more useful. mike