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All Ubuntu Cloud Guest Amazon Machine Images (AMI) are now conveniently listed at:

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ami/

Support is available from Canonical:

http://www.canonical.com/enterprise-services/ubuntu-advantage/cloud

Background

This AMI is based on 32-bit Ubuntu Server Hardy Heron. The 32 bit version is made to run on the m1.small and c1.medium instance sizes.

To get started on EC2 please refer to the Ubuntu EC2 getting started guide.

A mailing list has been setup so you can interact with other Ubuntu EC2 users. To sign up please go to.

A list of known bugs can be found here.

Features

Features include the following:

• Ubuntu Hardy 2.6.24 kernel.
• Ubuntu Hard Server packages.
• Amazon EC2 AMI tools (1.3.34128) installed and patched for Ubuntu.
• On first boot, runs instance user-data script if it starts with #!
• Generate new ssh host keys on first boot and output fingerprints.
• libc6-xen installed.
• Root password enabled.
• Auto-detects the Canonical mirror based on the zone that you are running on.
• Rightscale support.
• Landscape support.
• Root password disabled by default (users must use the ubuntu user to login).
• 10GB root (/) partition.

Changelog

• April 04, 2009 - ubuntu-hardy-20090422-i386.manifest.xml

  • US - ami-5d59be34 EU - ami-30c0e844
    • Initial release.