CentOS 6 (x86_64) - with Updates
CentOS.org | 6 - 2014-09-29Linux/Unix, CentOS 6 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Great service, but expensive coast
The amazon estruture is excelent, you have the best service in cloud computing, but the traffic coast is most expensive.
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Lost my pem
Hello mate,
I just lost my PEM of my server which is configured with your AMI.
can you please guide me how can i recover my password.
All of my domains are down. please guide me.
Excellent Service
Love the easiness of creating and managing instances , Also very reliable , Thank you for the free 1 year EC2 experience . Amazon EC2 Rocks :)
CentOS
I choosed CentOS because It is often used in work place.
The login account was 'root' not 'ec2-user'.
I wanted to try installing My SQL 5.6 and needed to download the rpm files from dev.mysql.com. I found that lynx can be used on CentOS. To install lynx, type 'yum install lynx'.
I used Amazon Linux for a substitute of CentOS when there were no CentOS official AMIs but I found that Amazon Linux and CentOS were slightly different around rpm packages.
overall is good but no Aws API install
Overall everything is good but it will be much better if installed with amazon API tools to easy manage and handle AWS things since this was launch in Amazon AWS
Default user name for SSH is root
A lot of EC2 information suggests the usual user name for any Linux AMI, including CentOS, is ec2-user. That is not true for this AMI, and if you try to use ec2-user@theipaddress in your SSH command line, you will be prompted for a password -- where none exists.
Be aware, you need to set up a key pair for SSH access (kind of obvious) and then use the user name root for SSH access (not obvious). Being prompted for a password is clear evidence the user name is wrong.
Not working with instance without EBS
Centos build is good enough by itself, but it is not working with the instance that has not EBS storage. That kind of instance instance stuck on launch.
Good for what it is
If you are looking for a clean core install of Centos then this may be for you. If you are looking for a Centos AMI that has anything beyond being able to connect to it via a command prompt so you can install everything else you need to be able to use the Server for anything, then this is not what you want. This is for advanced Server/Networking Techs who are wanting to custom build their Centos Server.
Wanted CentOS 6.5, got 6.4 instead
Given that this is the most recent image from CentOS, I was expecting a CentOS 6.5 image. This is CentOS 6.4. At the very least, the description on this item could be clear about that.
Working great so far
I recently installed the AMI and so far it's working great. It is stable and haven't had any issues.