FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status

[Alexandre Biancalana]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 01/03/12 09:40, Sean Bruno wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:07 -0800, Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>>>  What´s is the current state of FreeBSD running on Amazon EC2 ? Is
>>> this stable ? Looking at Colin's status page
>>> (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/) looks like there´s no
>>> active development on that.
>
> I'll be publishing AMIs for 9.0-RELEASE for the 64-bit "defenestrated"
> instances and cluster compute instances.

Thank you for the responses guys.

>
> Beyond that, I'm mostly waiting for improvements from Amazon.
>
>>>  Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?
>
> Yes.

I´d asked the wrong question... are the FreeBSD instances stable
enough to run Network/FileSystem very intensive workload ?

>
>>>  I'm interested in running network (dns and http with accept filter)
>>> and memory/buffer cache intensive applications on m1.small, m1.large
>>> and m2.xlarge instances.
>>>
>>>  Any thoughts ?
>
> You can't run FreeBSD on m1.small, but it works just fine on m1.large and
> m2.xlarge as long as you don't mind paying the "Windows tax".

By "paying the Windows tax" you mean that it run in HVM instead of PV Xen mode ?