[ec2-beta] Using latest kernel in Europe?

[Eric Hammond]

Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Soren, Eric, what are the constraints in us extending the beta2 to
> include EU?

To copy an AMI from US to EU only requires creating an S3 bucket in EU
and running a couple commands like:

ec2-migrate-bundle                \
  --retry                         \
  -c $EC2_CERT                    \
  -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY             \
  -a $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID           \
  -s $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY       \
  --bucket $from_bucket           \
  --destination-bucket $to_bucket \
  --manifest $manifest            \
  --ec2cert $EC2_CERT             \
  --location EU                   \
  --region eu-west-1              \
  --kernel $new_aki               \
  --ramdisk $new_ari

ec2-register                      \
  --region eu-west-1              \
  $to_bucket/$manifest

Canonical will also have to copy the AKIs and ARIs to EU.  I am not
familiar with this process but have hopes it should be nearly as simple.

Once this is done the beta documentation will need to be updated to list
the AMI ids with their respective regions.

In the long run, there are considerations about what Ubuntu repositories
should be used (geographical) and whether separate AMIs should be built,
but in the short to mid term it would be easiest to simply copy and use
the same images in both regions.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com