On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:53:45AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/29/11 12:36 AM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > Hello > > > > Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon > > EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I > > want. > > > > Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from > > scratch or an existing minimal CentOS image that is bootable from EBS. > > My server must must persist, as I cannot handle issues with a dynamic > > server, so I want to use a server that can boot from EBS. > > good luck with the persistence part in a cloud. the whole idea of > clouds is to distribute your services and separate them from the > physical instances. EC2 is *not* a replacement for a conventional > static server. > EC2 nowadays *does* have support for static/persistent boot volumes. -- Pasi