[ec2-beta] Private vs. Public Instances

[Chuck Short]

We were talking about this today and there is possibly to query a page 
using curl with the latest versions for
the AMI id so people will always use the latest AMI ids. Also we could 
have a little script in the AMI to notify
that users that the latest AMI are available.

Regards
chuck

Rodney T. Quillo wrote:
> On Monday 09 March 2009 19:35:45 Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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>> Eric Hammond wrote:
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>>> However, I can say from personal experience that it is a pain to keep
>>> updating these documents manually with the latest information every time
>>> a new AMI is released.
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>> Is there a way to add a layer of indirection on AMI's? For example, is
>> there a way to say "fire up the latest version of the
>> Ubuntu-9.04-for-EC2 AMI"? Or "fire up the today's version of
>> Ubuntu-9.04-for-EC2-with-updates-applied"?
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>> Mark
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> Commonly, it would be user option to launch which AMI that is available on his 
> lists. Unless there's an automated way to do this using another app/script.
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>  Just my two cents. :)
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