"Best" Amazon EC2 EMI for CentOS with EBS storage?

Question

Hi there,

Are there any "good", clean, reliable and trustworthy "out-of-the-box" Amazon EC2 AMI images for CentOS that uses EBS storage by default (instead of instance storage)?

The RightScale AMIs seem pretty popular but they are only with instance storage.

I can't find any information or "Top AMIs" lists..

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,

Daniel

Answer 1

I see at least six RightScale EBS-based images with CentOS:

• ami-2342a94a (411009282317/RightImage_CentOS_5.4_i386_v5.5.9_EBS)
• ami-4d42a924 (411009282317/RightImage_CentOS_5.4_x64_v5.5.9_EBS)
• ami-8337deea (411009282317/RightImage_CentOS_5.4_i386_v5.3_EBS_Beta)
• ami-8737deee (411009282317/RightImage_CentOS_5.4_x64_v5.3_EBS_Beta)
• ami-d0e901b9 (411009282317/RightImage_CentOS_5.4_x64_v5.4.6.2_EBS_Beta)
• ami-dc977fb5 (411009282317/RightImage_CentOS_5.4_i386_v5.4.6_EBS_Beta)

I can't comment on their quality, but they should be save to use. If in doubt I'd review the guidelines on using shared AMIs. But it looks like they are all RightScale, so I doubt there is anything wrong with them.

Down the road, you could always create your own (customized) AMI.

Answer 2

The product we sell has an inbuilt search engine for AMIs. I just logged into my account to paste back a few, but it turns out there are 40+ different EBS-backed machines available (at least in the US East data center). So, despite being a minor plug, you may want to play around with our solution to help you filter through machines avaialble in EC2: http://LabSlice.com.

Answer 3

http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/