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Since we're adding to the wishlist: AMIs are a pain to publish: you need one for each region, and AWS keeps adding regions, and publishing is a challenge (you
by brian_cunnie 5y ago
Since we're adding to the wishlist:
AMIs are a pain to publish: you need one for each region, and AWS keeps adding regions, and publishing is a challenge (you need to be a citizen to publish to the Gov regions, and you won't believe how hard it is to reliably publish to the China region, at least back in '18).
AMIs should be S3 blobs like GCP, and that makes everything simpler.
And, while we're at it, Key Pairs should allow elliptic curve (ssh-keygen -t ed25519 ...) instead of forcing us to use RSA.
- stadium 5y ago> AMIs are a pain to publish If the time urgency allows, use the cli to poll for new regions one a day, then share the ami to any new regions added from yesterday.
- gregmac 5y agoI've also built a script that does this (copies custom amis to the 4 regions we operate in, if missing), and I bet thousands of others have written similar tools. Similarly, every cloudformation/terrform/etc config has a region-to-ami lookup involved, because they get different ids in each region. AWS could do something that takes a tiny fraction of the collective effort applied, and make all that work unnecessary. Having amis globally available once uploaded, with zero extra work, would be nice. I'm okay with the first launch in a new region taking an extra few seconds while it copies over for the first time.