There are plenty of companies that will let you upload your own images. It's not very convenient. Provider's images are somewhat easier to use. The best soluti

There are plenty of companies that will let you upload your own images. It's not very convenient. Provider's images are somewhat easier to use. The best solution is to have maintainers of the OS prepare cloud distributions. Many already do for AWS or OpenStack. Our own 'cperciva is responsible for EC2-compatible version of FreeBSD. Until this becomes a standard, there's nothing wrong with partial solutions. I created a FreeBSD droplet right away.