Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS
Canonical Group Limited | 14.04 LTS 20180818Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
This is a good server
Looking to run the latest Unbuntu 14 on a legacy instance here's your AMI. I found this to be a very fast webserver after adding a LAMP stack. We moved from CentOS on to this and it's much faster under load, with page loads from 5 to 10 sec, where CentOS was 20 sec page load time under the same load. Good performer.
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Review of Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS by Canonical Group Limited
DTS-03102015:20:21
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Re: Review of Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS by Canonical Group Limited
For a Linux distro this AMI has become my favorite to use especially for research and development. Frankly, it has become my choice of distro. Canonical Group Limited for Ubuntu has produced some clear documentation on Ubuntu and if you're a CloudDevOps running any instance sorting through poorly written documentation can cost alot of labor on an operational instance. Although, I have tested the Amazon AMI, I do feel the AMI would rank the same. If you have packages installed that just screwed up everything only to become a lesson-learned, this instance you can easily terminate and start fresh. If you're planning on using this instance for e-mail, read my review listed under the Bitnami Horde and then go from there.
Thank you,
--- MMS
Seamless installation
It just works! :) It is waht I expect when I install ubuntu. There is not much to about but i would like to take the opportunity to say to Canonical group.....
Thanks!
for this awesome work
Great way to upgrade from Ubuntu 12lts
Having several ubuntu 12. LTS servers in my office rack, I wanted to use this instance to "migrate" my applications from one of my in-house servers, rather than suffer down time while performing an in-place upgrade.
I fired up the instance and all is good, I especially appreciated the lightning fast installs of the standard packages that I add to build up my server from this Ubuntu base.
Now that it is operational, I am asking myself...why even go back to my in-house server!
Clean'n'fast
This AMI is my goto, every time. It is clean and fast and doesn't make many assumptions about what you want to do. Thank you, Canonical!
Seems to work better than the "Quick Start"
I think this tends to work a little better than the Amazon Quick Start Ubuntu AMI, I'm not sure why.
Worked great for a four-hour experiment.
LT;DR -- Everything I tried worked for a short test of something else.
I needed an OS for a quick experiment connecting to an AWS Oracle RDS with a provided license, to see if I could get away with using Slick's JDBC driver (not their Oracle driver because TypeSafe wants big money for that).
This OS worked great for my ~4 hour test. sudo apt-get install a bunch of stuff, git pull https://github.com/dwalend/EnronMetaData.git , sbt run, things hiccuped, I fixed, things worked. No grief from the OS. Just a little from AWS RDS to figure out the right url.
Ubuntu mini instance
I used mini instance of Ubuntu to establish VPN tunnel between AWS VPC and my private network. The instance worked fine and reboot also brought the connection back because of auto IPSec configuration. I liked this instance performance.
Doesnt support newer instance types
Why doesnt the official Ubuntu image support newer instance types??? Is anyone updating this?
Would like to see the newer images be allowed to be used with this image.
Just like running your own server
Canonical's Ubuntu 14.04 Server AMI runs just like running Ubuntu on your own server. This was the first time I've used AWS so I built a prototype of what I wanted to deploy on my own local server first. Then when I brought up an EC2 instance with the Ubuntu AMI, everything worked great - just like on my own local server.