CentOS 6.5 (x86_64) - Release Media
CentOS.org | 6.5 - 2013-12-01Linux/Unix, CentOS 6.5 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
I have used Centos earlier as well
I have used centos earlier and kind of feel at home with centos :)
So without doubt - Its 5 stars.
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Would like to have a image with a 2 GB size
For my requirement 8 GB size is a waste. Currently I use custom instance. For most case either I don't need that much of space in the machine or use additional volumes to extend space. Anyway the user can increase the volume size, decreasing the volume size from the market place images is not possible. I could not find a way to do it.
It would be great if the official image is provided with default 2gb or 3gb image size.
Excellent
I think it is very good. The operating system is very stable. It is easy to use. And it's free.
HVM Variants
AMI itself is solid, we've used it a lot.
It would be very helpful if we could have HVM variants of the current product (6.5) at least so that we could use the t2 series, etc.
Also, what's the prospect for 7.0? I'm hearing you're planning to do some sort of automation rather than distribute AMIs ... can you clarify the general outlines of the plan?
It would be great not to use Marketplace for official but no charge AMI's, because the Marketplace copy protections slows data recovery in emergencies (because you cannot remount the volumes and fix them)
Great AMI
As basic AMIs go - this one is quite good of course, and allowed our team to make terrific progress. The documentation is quite good as well.
Only one complaint - the AMI uses the 'root' account to attach the SSH public key when instance is launched. This is a security risk of course. Easy enough to fix, but for those not thinking about even basic security (you know who you are!) and there are plenty of those - this exposes their systems to undue risk.
I realize that there is no perfect solution to this issue, even if using a different account name, that account will have sudo access. At the very least, this vulnerability ought to be documented and users using this AMI should be encouraged to fix this.
CentOS 6.5 verry stable !
I just need a GNU Linux Disto and CentOS 6.5 was very appropriate for my needs to support Java / Tomact application deployment.
Is this a serious installation?
So this is comming from centos.org directly so I supposed (wrongly) the installation was a state of the art install for a centos distro, but it isn't.
Login with root permitted, basic tools missing (see lsof), key for centos repo failing to validate,... and what's more frightening ... no partitioning at all. And by at all I mean that everything is on the / partition and actually disk hasn't a partition table at all...system is installed into /dev/xvde directly
A complete mess! One star as I'm unable to put 0.
Short on resources and Missing Deps
The Cent OS 6.5 default image is short on resources for the free tier and only comes with a root partition, by default we should be able to at least be able to restrict scripts, on tmp with a separate partition for /tmp using fstab, every other VPS/Web host does, you will have problems if you want to do more than just boot and say run a word press site with the micro instance have at look at AWS Linux instead if your budget for resources is limited but its missing SELinux.
You will also notice some errors for missing files when you update, saving space but its still an error so if you are verifying your packages using RPM or need to use a time zone other than the default you will have some issues. I also run out of memory when configuring selinux to use a non default port for ssh.
Run with at least 2GB of RAM or don't bother.
Very good product
Even having very basic knowledge on setting-up Linux-based OS, I was able to get this product installed and working with no hitch. An existing project had been migrated and it worked instantly, all the needed package are available.
Excellent Service
I really enjoy using CentOS on AWS! Migrating was the best decision I ever made. I lover the cloud service