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Huh. To me, "go out and get the latest release automatically" is terrifying; you should be testing new releases before you deploy them. It would be simple eno

Huh. To me, "go out and get the latest release automatically" is terrifying; you should be testing new releases before you deploy them. It would be simple enough to extract the AMI numbers from FreeBSD release announcements though; the main reason I encourage people to use the Marketplace AMIs is that the AWS Marketplace provides useful statistics about how many instances are running.

helper 11y ago
Maybe "release" isn't the correct term. Ubuntu publishes new AMIs with the latest security patches quite regularly. When I spin up a new instance on say 14.04 I want it to boot with a fully patched kernel.
- takeda 11y ago
  IIRC The EC2 FreeBSD applies all new security patches and reboots (if there were any) on first start.
  - cperciva 11y ago
    Correct. (This behaviour can be disabled via EC2 user-data.)