On Monday, 25.05.2015 at 19:49, Andrew Stuart wrote: > >>I'd need to discuss with AWS engineers whether or not it makes sense for > >>them. Hopefully at the Xen Summit in Seattle in August. > > I contacted Jeff Barr and Colin Percival when digging in to the networking > issues I was trying to resolve. Jeff is getting back to me with people at AWS > with specific expertise in this area and they’ll likely be happy to help. I > asked if they could also give us some usage credits for AWS and this seems > likely. He said it’s a holiday there over the weekend but they’ll get back > to me soon.
Great, let us know how you get on. > Another thing worth noting is that it might be worth us having a chat to Jeff > Barr and his folks about how EC2 might be adjusted to be better suited to > booting small kernels. I believe that at the moment the minimum bootable EBS > volume size is 1G. Whilst that’s no big deal in terms of testing and > configuring, it would be a whole lot sweeter if we could boot the minimum > size possible. Indeed. I'd be very interested to have that discussion. Martin
