CentOS 7 (x86_64) - with Updates HVM
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Works well.
It installed and worked just as I expected. An easy install. Now I'm configuring it for my own needs.
CentOS 7 (x86_64) with Updates HVM review
Most of the experience was pretty straight forward. I did however have an issue with 'yum update' rendering my instance unreachable after reboot. I had to use 'yum -y --exclude=kernel\* update' to avoid it.
Adam
Works without issues
Good old CentOS....
Too bad it doesn't come with CentOS 7.1, but a simple updates solves this.
Other than this, worked well, including automatically formatting the built-in SSD with XFS and mounting it
Not the same as CentOS 7 Minimal distro, Not updated.
I feel misled. Systemd and firewalld are not installed or enabled on this image. Whether or not I like these changes from earlier major CentOS versions, I did not expect the AMI to diverge from the canonical minimal distribution.
Despite the title, the AMI is not up-to-date when started. You will still need to yum update and reboot first thing.
Ready to fly
this server is perfect, i had it up and running with everything i need in less then 20 minutes!
Good stable system working out of the box
It is Centos. It works and it is free. Repos are continuously updated by one of the biggest Linux communities. Memory footprint of a bare new machine created from this Centos7 64bit image is more than two times bigger compared to a bare new machine created from Amazon Linux 64bit image. It is 180MB versus 80MB.
Notification
You cannot install cPanel & WHM on a CentOS 7 server.( up to date)
( In general very smooth basic centos installation )
Latest image no issue
Official CentOs 7 image. may need to reinstall remi rpm though.
Oh, and do watch that you login using centos.
Thanks
Solid and Free -- what more do you need?
Love Centos for its rock-solid reliability and its dedicated community. Free usage for Centos itself, and enterprise reliability. A+ all the way.
Pretty much a base os install as expected with some cloud extras
Its the base Centos install as you would expect with the typical cloud.cfg.
If you want to change the hostname for example you would need to comment out some lines in that file. I haven't yet explored the potential usefulness of these cloud files that come with Centos or Debian for example, but I expect they are there for a reason.
I am quite glad Centos finally has an official AMI out now though :)