[CentOS] Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2(Electronic Compute Cloud)

Fri May 8 09:39:55 UTC 2009
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Jason Aubrey wrote:
> For making an image public, it would obviously be great if Amazon
> would sponsor the image...

You are missing the point, imho. I think the real issue, for me anyway, 
is that Amazon is actively discouraging what is essentially a community, 
in spite of the fact that they and many of their users rely on the 
community to get things done, both work and play.

> However, if this isn't the case maybe centos.org could publish an
> image identifier(s) on their website and then have it labeled 'public'
> on the AWS console.

Well, what is centos.org ? Why dont you go ahead and document the build 
process, and I can plumb that into the distro-build scripts.

> Each image has a unique identifier used to instantiate it, so as long
> as centos.org publishes approved ids then that would be a pretty good
> work around in my opinion.

workaround to what ? Amazon being hostile to open source projects ?

- KB