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Date:      Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:12:55 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Fordham <chris@xhost.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/EC2 lives!
Message-ID:  <4E0179D7.2050009@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.vxgdrrwncznhgw@inquisitor.local>
References:  <4D066D52.2080100@freebsd.org> <op.vxgdrrwncznhgw@inquisitor.local>

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On 06/21/11 18:15, Chris Fordham wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:00:34 +1100, Colin Percival wrote:
>> Thanks to a month of bug fixing and a lot of help from Amazon, FreeBSD
>> is now
>> available on EC2:
>>   http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html
>>
>> Only for 9.0-CURRENT and only t1.micro instances so far, though -- but
>> we're
>> moving in the right direction. :-)
>>
> A belated big thanks again for this Colin!
> 
> Just wondering if there are any updates or developments post December
> 2010's initial release?

Yes.  The current status of FreeBSD/EC2 is at
  http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/

> I am an engineer at RightScale and a couple of us that are FreeBSD users
> are looking at creating RightImages for the 5 regions.
> We'd like to offer our help and support if needed.

I've released 8.2-RELEASE AMIs for t1.micro instances for all 5 regions.
There's also an 8.2ish AMI for cc1.4xlarge in us-east-1.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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