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Date:      Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:09:09 -0400
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:         "Application Certification Support via freebsd-cloud" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "small" flavour
Message-ID:  <66e66b9b-084b-47e4-862e-98141c47a856@app.fastmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 1, 2024, at 2:46 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> Hi cloudy people,
>
> I'm planning on adding a new flavour of FreeBSD/EC2 AMIs: "Small" AMIs,
> which are the standard FreeBSD "base" images minus some bits which are
> optional or generally less likely to be useful for production systems:
>
> * They don't have kernel or world debug symbols,
> * They don't have FreeBSD tests,
> * They don't have 32-bit libraries,
> * They don't have LLDB,
> * They don't have the Amazon SSM Agent pre-installed,
> * They don't default to installing the awscli at first boot.
>
> Phabricator review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D46509
>
> I'm planning on committing this in a few days (aka before this week's
> snapshot builds); if you have any feedback on the "smallification" I
> did above, please let me know.

I=E2=80=99m going to guess the main benefit is lower memory usage. Which=
 means smaller instances can be used.=20

--=20
  Dan Langille
  dan@langille.org



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