Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:47:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43471 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201401111047.s0BAlqfE005439@svn.freebsd.org>
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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 ============================================================================== --- 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@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>
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