> although there is hardly the demand It's a chicken/egg problem -- Amazon won't be motivated to implement additional support for FreeBSD without more people a

> although there is hardly the demand It's a chicken/egg problem -- Amazon won't be motivated to implement additional support for FreeBSD without more people asking for it, but the additional visibility FreeBSD would gain from better support on AWS (and/or Azure) would definitely increase the number of people using it. It seems like FreeBSD has seen an upswing in interest over the past couple of years, and if interest keeps growing I think it'd eventually hit some threshold where Amazon is willing to implement better support for FreeBSD and then put some marketing behind it. On FreeBSD + saltstack: I saw an interesting article a few weeks back (on the saltstack website, no less) about them implementing better support for FreeBSD, specifically w.r.t. jails: http://intothesaltmine.org/blog/html/2013/08/30/bootstrapping_freebsd_jails_with_salt_bootstrap.html http://intothesaltmine.org/blog/html/2013/08/30/bootstrappin...