EC2 cloud image size

Garrett Holmstrom gholms at fedoraproject.org
Thu Dec 18 04:24:54 UTC 2014


On 2014-12-17 13:09, David Gay wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:07:12PM -0700, Dmitry Makovey wrote:
>>> Does it mean that "soon enough" we'll see an updated AMI with moderate
>>> disk demands?
>>
>> For some value of "soon enough", yeah. Sorry about that -- I'm checking
>> with David Gay, who wrote the uploader.
>
> Yeah, this was my oversight. Seems the cloud base image is only 425 MB. I can produce new AMIs right now. Do you think a 1 GB or 500 MB drive would be best, or something else?

EBS images can only use 1 GB size increments, and FWIW, the stock images 
that AWS produce come in 2 GB and 8 GB variants.  How does 2 GB sound?

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Garrett Holmstrom


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