FreeBSD at Amazon EC2 status

[Colin Percival]

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.

Beyond that, I'm mostly waiting for improvements from Amazon.

>>  Does someone running production workload with FreeBSD on EC2 ?

Yes.

>>  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".

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Colin Percival
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