Re: Adding an 'official' CentOS image to the Amazon EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud)

[Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Aubrey wrote:
> I'm starting to use the EC2 cloud (as are others) and noticed that all
> the available CentOS images seem to be of dubious origin.
> I think it would further the reputation and popularity of CentOS if it
> were represented in an official way.

I started talking to Amazon about this a long time back ( early Feb 2008 
  - refer to posts on the centos-virt list ) and was quite interested in 
making things easier for people who might want to use CentOS images on 
EC2 - and their response at the time was semi-warm. After a few emails 
to and fro, I even agreed ( against usual principles ) to sign a NDA 
that they sent over so that we could move the situation forward. 
However, their continued attitude to the issue amounted to : go away, we 
dont care about you so stop wasting our time. Another way to interpret 
it is : give us loads of money and we'll talk to you, till then, stop 
wasting our time.

So, unless they are happy to come back and start talking to us again I 
highly recommend everyone not bother using EC2.

- KB
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