[CentOS] How to get CentOS 8 on AWS

Wed May 13 14:42:11 UTC 2020
Greg Bailey <gbailey at lxpro.com>

On 5/12/20 6:50 PM, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 8:02 PM Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 12 May 2020, Thomas Stephen Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am user of CentOS 8.
>>> When can we expect an image on AWS?
>>> I am just learning AWS and would like to use CentOS 8 for that.
>> I can't speak to AWS per se, but Digital Ocean has a CentOS 8 image,
>> so it would surprise me if Amazon did not.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Heinlein
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>
> Hi,
>
> There are images, but they are all third party supplied.
>
> I was looking for something like this.
>
> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/Centosorg-CentOS-7-x8664-with-Updates-HVM/B00O7WM7QW
>
> supplied by Centos.org
>
> I found this bug while searching
>
> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16614
>
> t

The whole process is definitely more complicated than it should be. :-)

I've documented the steps I used in a markdown file here:

https://github.com/gebailey/notes/tree/master/building-centos-ec2-amis

-Greg