svn commit: r49806 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sun Jan 8 23:49:56 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Sun Jan  8 23:49:54 2017
New Revision: 49806
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49806

Log:
  Add EC2 entry from cperciva

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Sun Jan  8 23:02:16 2017	(r49805)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml	Sun Jan  8 23:49:54 2017	(r49806)
@@ -83,4 +83,72 @@
     <description>Miscellaneous</description>
   </category>
 
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>&os;/EC2</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Colin</given>
+	  <common>Percival</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>cperciva at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This report covers work since the last &os;/EC2 status report
+	(2015Q1).</p>
+
+      <p>&os;/EC2 is now part of the regular &os; release build,
+	with snapshots and releases being automatically uploaded and
+	copied to all available regions.  Due to legal restrictions
+	this does not currently include the GovCloud or China
+	(Beijing) regions; anyone wishing to use &os; in those regions
+	is encouraged to contact the author.</p>
+
+      <p>The AWS Marketplace reports that approximately 800 users
+	are running roughly 2000 &os; EC2 instances.  This does not
+	count the likely significantly larger number of EC2 instances
+	launched "directly" through the EC2 API and Console, but at
+	least places a lower bound on usage.</p>
+
+      <p>&os; 11.0-RELEASE shipped with support for the "enhanced
+	networking" support in EC2 C3, C4, R3, I2, D2, and M4
+	(excluding m4.16xlarge) instances; this provides significantly
+	higher network performance than the virtual networking
+	available on older EC2 instances and with older versions of
+	&os;.</p>
+
+      <p>&os; 11.0-RELEASE and later also use indirect segment disk
+	I/Os, which yield ~20% higher throughput with equal or lower
+	latency, and support the 128-vCPU x1.32xlarge instance
+	type.</p>
+
+      <p> &os; now supports the Amazon Simple Systems Manager service
+	("run command").</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Complete a pending reorganization of the accounts used for &os;/EC2
+	releases.</task>
+
+      <task>Support "second generation enhanced networking" via
+	the new Elastic Network Adapter found in P2, R4, X1, and
+	m4.16xlarge instances.</task>
+
+      <task>Provide tools for improved functionality via the Simple
+	Systems Manager service: Listing installed packages, checking
+	for updates, adding/removing users, [your favourite sysadmin
+	task goes here].</task>
+
+      <task>Add support for EC2's IPv6 networking to the default &os;/EC2
+	configuration.</task>
+
+      <task>Continue ongoing interoperability testing between &os;'s
+	NFS client and Amazon Elastic File System
+	(NFS-as-a-service).</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
