Arch on Amazon Web Services EC2

yuvadm · 2012-08-08 12:44:43

I've made the transition on Arch on some of my desktops a few months ago and am truly shocked about how much I've learned so far. Arch is an amazing distro, and I definitely see it becoming my go-to distro for most uses. The community has also been extremely helpful in this regard.

For a while now I've been pondering using Arch on some of my EC2 production servers.

However, to my surprise, it's actually very hard to get started using Arch on EC2. There are no public AMIs whatsoever that I can easily get started with. I have no problem doing some of the legwork myself and creating AMIs by myself (and will definitely do that on _production_ servers), but just spinning up a plain vanilla Arch AMI on EC2 is not a trivial task. Even when using some of the scripting frameworks for that purpose (such as arch4ec2 or ArchLinux-AMIs), I found that they are kind of outdated/deprecated/unsupported and do not work out-of-the-box.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get started with Arch on EC2?

Last edited by yuvadm (2012-08-08 12:45:33)

Timeslicer · 2012-08-08 14:17:16

I have been using this ami: Arch Linux 64bit EBS 20120716 -- base (ami-35b8165c)
It works very well.
From here you can do anything you want.

yuvadm · 2012-08-09 12:19:13

Sweet. That should get me started for now, thanks.

How about self-creation of AMIs? Any recommendations on an up-to-date framework for getting that done?

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#1 2012-08-08 12:44:43

Arch on Amazon Web Services EC2

#2 2012-08-08 14:17:16

Re: Arch on Amazon Web Services EC2

#3 2012-08-09 12:19:13

Re: Arch on Amazon Web Services EC2

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