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