On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 02:19:19AM -0000, hannes(a)ucsc.edu wrote:
What is the motivation for the eager deletion of the official Fedora
VM images (AMIs) from EC2? The image for 21 is already gone even
though it is not even two years old. Ubuntu is keeping the images
around much longer.
Which AMI ID are you looking for, in which regions? We had a problem
where we accidentally had many _unreleased_ snapshots consuming space
and costing us significant money, and recently cleaned those up.
However, all of the _released_ images back to F18 should still be
there. In US East for F21, we have ami-d2d999ba for F21 PV and
ami-acd999c4 and ami-78bafa10 for HVM. (I'm not sure offhand what the
distinction between those other two is -- I'm looking this up in the
middle of a meeting...)
Of course, we *do* strongly recommend using the supported releases, but
we understand that it's important to have time to transition and that
sometimes old images are useful for testing, too.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader