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cperciva on May 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: VM export for EC2

moving images around availability zones

Presumably you mean regions here? Within any one region, you can use an AMI in any of the availability zones.

aychedee on May 26, 2012 [–]

Whoops, yes of course. That's what I meant. Moving images between regions is currently a pain.

cperciva on May 26, 2012 | [–]

Agreed. Every time I publish a new FreeBSD AMI I spin up 7 instances and run a bunch of "dd | ssh | dd" to send the bits out to the right places.

At this point I have the entire process scripted, and it's still painful.

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