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Great option for a BSD host
A quick and easy way to have a server running FreeBSD.
If you want to have a FreeBSD server on the Internet, this is a great option. The deployment is fast, the version is the latest, and the installation of additional packages (via pkg) is very fast.
In a very short time I installed my favorite packages from CPAN and I run a Perl application in HTTPS, with a MongoDB database,. And an easy firewall configuration.
The only thing is that FreeBSD is not as visible in the list of available operating systems. It would be great if Amazon created a category for the BSD systems to let them in evidence.
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Great offer
Works flawlessly. Deployed in a minutes.
Saved my back during unexpected failure of dedicated server at another hosting provider. Served as a replacement for a few days, until the next server was provisioned and fully configured.
Just works!
I got my FreeBSD instance up and running with just a few clicks. In a matter of minutes I was installing applications and setting up the services I needed to get my stuff working. I'm impressed with the performance, I'm using the smallest instance and performance is great. Good work Colin.
it works just great
many thanks for the Image you provided. it works like charm. setup is totally easy (as usual) and it runs rocksolid and fast. even with the smallest instance.
Great job for an amazing product
Just another great job from Colin Percival.
I'm successfully using it with a lot of services. AWS and FreeBSD reliability and quality are a must to have!
Thank you!
It's FreeBSD...
So there's not much to say. The default installation is ok. No weird configuration, everything pretty much as you expect it to be.
Running a gitlab service on a FreeBSD instance now. Works like a charm.
Rock solid.
Great FreeBSD install
I found Colin's website quite useful in determining which FreeBSD AMI to install on AWS. It's also good to know that the default user is ec2-user for this.
The system boots up a rather default install of FreeBSD except for a few scripts to setup the environment. The newer versions also allow you to update from freebsd-update rather than building a custom kernel.
One issue I had was that I switched to FreeBSD from an Ubuntu AMI. The elastic IP could not be migrated between the different virtualization types in Amazon. If you're migrating from Linux and you have elastic IPs or reserved instances, consider that it may use a different instance type.
Maintaining these FreeBSD AMIs is a lot of work and I'm very glad that Colin puts in the time on these. They are extremely helpful.
Awesome!
Awesome job of getting the latest FreeBSD 10 to EC2! Thanks a bunch! Works great out of the box!
An easy and cheap way to play around with FreeBSD. Recommended.
Amazing FreeBSD on Amazon AWS
FreeBSD is the best solution for internet. ;) I'm glad to use FreeBSD on Amazon AWS. I miss this before. Not only Windows and Linux must be available from quick Instance Launcher.
FreeBSD 10 on Amazon Web Services
Many thanks to Colin Percival for bringing FreeBSD to AWS. It's pretty straightforward to setup and build from - used tiny version(s) to learn how it all hangs together. Performance seems to be pretty good - tested out on with WordPress and Magento - both seem happy enough with caching etc at various levels. Throw in the AWS features and some pretty extensive solutions can easily be built.