EC2 cloud image size

[David Gay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Gay" <dgay at redhat.com>
> To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 4:46:44 PM
> Subject: Re: EC2 cloud image size
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dmitry Makovey" <dmitry at athabascau.ca>
> > To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 3:02:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: EC2 cloud image size
> > 
> > On 12/17/2014 02:09 PM, 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?
> > 
> > /gentle/ bump?
> > 
> > Is any help required to get F21 "smaller" images to AWS? I'd love to
> > help (if I can) since I'm interested in the outcome myself.
> > 
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> Hey -- I actually solved this problem during the holidays. Lowered the size
> to 3 GB as suggested. There just haven't been any new builds that have gone
> through, and I haven't cut a new version just yet anyway (due to the
> holidays). It's no problem for me to send someone a list of fresh AMIs of
> the F21 cloud build with the lowered size tomorrow, if someone can toss them
> on the official website, as well. But yeah, this is all done. Just had to
> tweak two numbers is all.
> 
> -- oddshocks
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Regarding this, I've published a list of new F21 cloud x86_64 base AMIs -- in both HVM and PV -- to this list[1]. These AMIs have been registered with our minimum size requirement, 3 GB. Much smaller than the previous 12 GB registrations. Hopefully, this solves everyone's issues for now. If desired, I can send out a list of fresh Atomic AMIs with the lower 3 GB requirement, too. That email was mostly an announcement that base images are now available in HVM, though.

[1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2015-January/004831.html

-- oddshocks