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Can you install whatever OS you want on EC2 windows instances?
by papsosouid 13y ago
Can you install whatever OS you want on EC2 windows instances?
- profquail 13y agoYes, but you still end up paying the additional costs for the Windows licenses (even if you're not using them). Colin Percival (cperciva here on HN) maintains up-to-date FreeBSD AMIs for EC2, based on the Windows instances: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/
- papsosouid 13y agoNow I am confused. I started looking into this, and Amazon claims they are not using HVM for windows instances, they are using a PVM driver. So in that case, running "windows" instances wouldn't help. But then, why are those freebsd amis intended for "windows" instances? Edit: nevermind, the PVM drivers they were talking about are just to speed up IO, windows instances do have to be HVM.