On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 09:00:07PM -0400, Scott Moser wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to get tech board approval to make a change to the default > > filesystem size of our EC2 EBS-root [1] images from 15GB to 10GB. This > > request is entirely driven by the desire to fit into Amazon's newly > > created "Free Usage Tier" [2] that was announced late October of 2010. > > The change will allow Amazon customers run an instance of Ubuntu 10.04 or > > 10.10 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 1 year. Without that change, > > if a use selects Ubuntu for their image type, they will pay $0.55 per > > month ($ 0.11/GB-Month for the additional 5GB of storage). > > > > There is a bug opened [3] requesting 10GB root filesystem images. > > > > If this item needs discussion, I'd like to have it on the 2010-11-16 > > meeting agenda. > > Sounds like a smart move to me; no questions or concerns here. +1 to go > ahead, and thanks for the detailed explanation.
I think we're set then. I will plan on putting this change in place. I plan to make the images 8GB in size, rather than 10GB as suggested. This change is because of some off-line discussions with Amazon where they recommended 8GB root volumes for images that are targeting use with "Free Tier". -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
