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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 64-bit Ubuntu Server Intrepid Ibex. The 64-bit version is made to run on the m1.large, m1.xlarge, and c1.xlarge 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 use the mailman interface.

A list of known bugs can be found here.

Features

Features include the following:

• Ubuntu Intrepid 2.6.27 kernel.
• Ubuntu Intrepid 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.
• Root password disabled.
• 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-amd64.manifest.xml

  • US - ami-255bbc4c EU - ami-84c0e8f0
    • Initial release.