There is no single place that people go to find AMI ids, and there are dozens of ways that people run AMIs on EC2 once they find the ids.
You need to make sure you are putting the official AMI ids in as many places as you can including:
- The official Debian web site - EC2 Quick Start list on AWS console - AWS Marketplace (I doubt this is popular yet) - A machine-queriable API that returns the latest AMI ids - Other places that show up when people search for them on GoogleSince I published a series of popular Debian community AMIs back in 2008-2010, my web site Alestic.com became known as the place to find the AMI ids.
Alestic.com still shows up towards the top of Google searches like [debian ec2] and [debian ami] and [official debian amis] even though I don't say "Debian" except to point folks to the current community AMI page.
If Debian provides a query API with the latest AMIs, I'd be happy to list them on Alestic.com so folks looking for them can find and run them.
Here are sample query results that I'm currently using to list Ubuntu AMIs (see pulldown at top right of http://Alestic.com):
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/query/precise/server/released.txtHere is a new proposed format for returning AMI information in a JSON format:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-query2-deprecationA lot of experience releasing AMIs has gone into creating this definition, so I'd recommend adopting this standard if you can.
-- Eric Hammond On 11/20/2012 12:46 PM, Anders Ingemann wrote:
Agreed. There are 19 AMIs in the quick launch wizard. Maybe there is a spot between the 3 Ubuntu AMIs and 11 Windows AMIs? Anders On 20 November 2012 21:24, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com> wrote:So doing a search in the marketplace for "Debian" results in 76 hits, and our new AMIs are buried behind pages of virtual appliances: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/ This wouldn't be such an issue if we were featured on the "Quick Start" list of available OSes, which currently only promotes the official "Amazon Linux", RHEL, SuSE, Ubuntu and MS-Windows AMIs. We really need to push for a featured spot on the "Quick Start" list otherwise we really aren't going to get much expose/benefit at all, as the marketplace is largely a cluttered area for "Virtual Appliances", and personally don't see a huge benefit of being in the marketplace over just self-publishing Debian Blessed AMIs. I would have said something sooner, but mistakenly assumed that when we were talking about "Marketplace" AMIs we were talking about being featured in the "Quick Start" list. Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cloud-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: [🔎] CACFaiRzcj9jc0+WyivkSVzytqO0P+RsJHOrhhwoEbGd5bdjsig@mail.gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] CACFaiRzcj9jc0+WyivkSVzytqO0P+RsJHOrhhwoEbGd5bdjsig@mail.gmail.com