svn commit: r43471 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Sat Jan 11 10:47:53 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Sat Jan 11 10:47:52 2014
New Revision: 43471
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43471

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report on FreeBSD/EC2
  
  Submitted by:	cperciva

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Sat Jan 11 10:29:52 2014	(r43470)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Sat Jan 11 10:47:52 2014	(r43471)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 11 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 12 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -608,4 +608,57 @@
 	threads.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <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>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/">&os;/EC2 status page</url>
+      <url href="http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-12-09-FreeBSD-EC2-configinit.html">Configinit</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a special type of virtual
+	appliance that is used to create a virtual machine within the
+	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2").  It serves as the basic
+	unit of deployment for services delivered using EC2.  Such AMIs
+	are available for <tt>8.3-RELEASE</tt> and later &os; releases,
+	and every ALPHA, BETA, and RC of &os; 10.0.  Starting from
+	&os; <tt>10.0-BETA1</tt>, &os;/EC2 images are running
+	"fully supported" &os; binaries, and starting from
+	&os; <tt>10.0-RC1</tt>, &os;/EC2 images include a
+	<tt>"configinit"</tt> system for autoconfiguration using EC2
+	user-data.</p>
+
+      <p>Due to limitations of old (<tt>m1</tt>, <tt>m2</tt>,
+	<tt>c1</tt>, <tt>t1</tt>) instance types,
+	<tt>"Windows"</tt>-labelled images are required for those
+	instance types; however all of the recent instances types
+	— <tt>m3</tt> (general purpose), <tt>c3</tt> (high-CPU),
+	and <tt>i2</tt> (high-I/O) — support &os; at the
+	<tt>"unix"</tt> pricing rates.</p>
+
+      <p>The maintainer of this platform considers it to be ready for
+	production use.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Hand over the task of building &os; AMIs to the Release
+	Engineering Team.</task>
+
+      <task>Get Amazon to add <tt>"&os;"</tt> to the list of platforms
+	supported by EC2, so that it can stop showing up as <tt>"Other
+	Linux"</tt>.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
