Amazon released their new EC2 API today.
The big news: You can have static IP addresses now. You can pick the data center where your machine instance is launched. Cool!
The minor news: Lots of little things were updated. They added tmpfs to the list of LOCAL_FS_TYPES so ubuntu volume images work without patching ec2-ami-tools. You no longer have to worry about having rsync lutime problems when creating a volume image. You can now use an upgraded Linux Kernel which comes with Fuse.
I was busy today upgrading all my images and notes. Gentoo and Ubuntu images were pretty easy to reconfigure. I have created a new public Ubuntu Hardy image that’s in my ubuntu-i686 bucket. Just list all public images to see it.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by dysinger
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