Re: AWS EC2: Debian Wheezy 7.5 AMIs available

[Anders Ingemann <anders@ingemann.de>]

On 3 May 2014 05:27, Chris Fordham <chris@fordham-nagy.id.au> wrote:

How about an API to retreive current/lastest AMI IDs by release, region etc.?

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Marcin Kulisz <debian@kulisz.net> wrote:

On 2014-05-01 13:04:46, Brian Gupta wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:49 AM, James Bromberger <james@rcpt.to> wrote:

snip

> I'll add that although it doesn't cost much to host AMIs, forcing our
> users who are using unmodified AMIs to clone ours, to rely on them
> being there, doesn't seem ideal.

But it's a good practise to not to rely on external repos including AMIs.
I'm not sure how fast we should remove AMIs but having AMI cloned into your own
account when using it in production seams to be a way to go in my opinion.
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> How about an API to retreive current/lastest AMI IDs by release, region etc.?

Eric Hammond actually suggested implementing his API, when we discussed that topic the last time. Have a look at the archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2012/11/msg00142.html