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Petter Olsson <[log in to unmask]>
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Petter Olsson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 May 2012 11:11:54 +0200
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Hi,

Static AMI's seems useful for people who just want to try something
out. Personally the Boxgrinder project is what I use to create new
AMI's.

Thanks
Petter

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Corey Quinn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 1:56 AM, Jamie Kinney wrote:
>
>> I have created a Scientific Linux 6.2 x86_64 Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) and would welcome
>> your feedback.  The AMI currently resides in the us-east-1 (Northern Virginia) Amazon EC2 region.
>> If there is enough interest, I could easily publish this AMI to all AWS regions.
>>
>> The AMI is ami-e2a0058b.
>>
>> https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-e2a0058b
>>
>> Feel free to contact me directly with any questions/comments.
>
> Thanks for doing this.
>
> [root@ip-10-196-57-7 ec2-user]# rpm -qa |wc -l
> 622
>
> Looks a bit heavy from my side-- most instances I tend to spin up hover between 200-300 packages installed.  Is this by design?
>
> I guess my real question becomes "What's the intended use case for this AMI?"
>
> -- Corey



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