AMI building AMI

[Colin Percival]

On 12/27/17 11:02, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote:
>> On 27 Dec 2017, at 18:59, Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> wrote:
>> I can build an 11.1 AMI Builder AMI tomorrow if you'd like.  Using this will
>> be better than trying to clean a "live" instance, since even if you delete
>> all the files you don't want to include, they'll still be lingering in the
>> free disk space.  If this includes AWS keys, this could have very bad results.
> 
> Thank you, Colin. Yes, it would be useful, but it can wait till you return from your Japanese conference.

You don't want to wait that long -- AsiaBSDCon isn't until March!

> Will I be able to use it in eu-west-1 or do I need to build in us-east-1,
> save to s3 and import into eu?

I've only built the AMI Builders in us-east-1 in the past.  But it's very
easy to copy AMIs between regions -- you don't need to save to S3 and then
re-import them, just use the "copy AMI" command (available as an API call
or via the AWS Console).

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Colin Percival
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