EC2 AMIs will be available from snapshot builds

[Colin Percival]

On 06/16/15 11:47, Collin Forbes wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 06:34:24PM +0000, Steve Wills wrote:
>>
>> I tried both the ami-67866a0c and ami-ccb6a7a4, but while both came up and
>> passed both the status checks according to Amazon, I couldn't ssh into either.
>> The system log reported "Fetching EC2 user-data failed." at the end.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> I was seeing this with ami-53fcb763 over the weekend. That one isn't a
> even a snapshot release. It's the AMI for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE for current
> generation instances on us-west-2. I was trying to use t2.small and
> t2.medium instances and had the same behavior.

Works for me... takes about 5 minutes before you can SSH in though, since the
image downloads security patches first.

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Colin Percival
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