Ahh that makes more sense. I'll have a play around creating one now. Thanks Rickard
On 24 November 2016 at 11:10, Rickard von Essen <[email protected] > wrote: > I thought it seemed odd that the AMI would be stored on S3, rather than >> under the "AMIs" section of the dashboard like the EBS instances, and >> wondered why that is. > > > The should also be listed under AMIs, but the bundle is in S3. This is > similar to EBS backed AMIs which have there underlying snapshot listed in > EBS Snapshots. > > On 24 November 2016 at 11:46, Matt Black <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Rickard, thanks for that. >> >> I'm totally across what EBS is and does - I've just never used >> instance-store backed EC2 instances. I thought it seemed odd that the AMI >> would be stored on S3, rather than under the "AMIs" section of the >> dashboard like the EBS instances, and wondered why that is. >> >> On 24 November 2016 at 10:31, Rickard von Essen < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Instance store don't use EBS at all. An EBS AMI references a EBS >>> snapshot which is used to boot the instance. AMI's for instance store >>> backed instances does instead store a image of the root disk in S3 (a >>> bundle), this image is encrypted with your key for security reasons. >>> >>> See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creat >>> ing-an-ami-instance-store.html >>> >>> On 24 November 2016 at 10:41, Matt Black <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey folks, >>>> >>>> I haven't used the instance-store builder before - or indeed any >>>> instance-store backed EC2. >>>> >>>> Could someone enlighten me as to why we need an S3 bucket and x509 >>>> certs for this builder? Why not just store the AMI on EC2 like with >>>> EBS-backed images? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> -- >>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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