On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 06:38:13 PM David Gay wrote: > Greetings! > > We sort of ran out of time in today's Cloud WG meeting, but I did want to > ask: > > What are your thoughts on AMI lifetimes? That is to say, how long should EC2 > AMIs exist before they're deleted? A few points to consider: > > - AMIs only cost us for storage, so it's not a *huge* cost to maintain a > public AMI - At the same time, there are a lot of AMIs, since we build 2-4 > per AWS region per build, and that number is growing - There are 9 regions > now, and we have 2 virtualization types, and 2 volume types, as well (9 > regions * 2 * 2 = 36 AMIs per Base image build, 18 for Atomic builds (since > they are only available in HVM format)) - This total number will only grow > larger as we add instance-store AMIs, and so on - This isn't even taking > into account any costs we'll have once we secure a deal with other > providers like HP, Rackspace, and GCE, to maintain public images on their > services your math is off, there should only be 9 Atomic as we only build it for x86_64 where we build the base for i386 and x86_64 so you have two arches by 2 image types by 9 regions Dennis > I propose we have some sort of discussion regarding how long cloud image > builds should be available on services like AWS. I suspect this will > resolve to having different lifetimes for scratch, test, RC, final, and > maybe other build types. > > Any input is appreciated. We can certainly talk about this at next week's > meeting, as well. > > -- David > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
