Over the last couple of months, some of our users have provided feedback about a number of concerns regarding the EC2 Ubuntu mirrors. Ubuntu engineering has undertaken a task to solve the problems encountered in EC2, such as outages, performance and VPC access [1].
The results of these engineering efforts is the _BETA_ availability of S3-backed EC2 Mirrors in all AWS Regions [2]. These new S3 Mirrors are hosted and created using Amazon AWS products (Autoscaling, S3, and EC2). With these new mirrors we are also exploring how to notify our community of outages or diminished capabilities (i.e. Twitter, Amazon SNS, email, etc); we expected the notification system will be delivered later in the development cycle. As with any beta, feedback is crucial to success. If you encounter a problem using the beta mirrors, please file a bug in LaunchPad (and assign it to "utlemming") or send me an email. We absolutely want to make sure that we get these mirrors right, and any feedback would be most appreciated. Finally, you can access these new mirrors by using the "<REGION>.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com", where <REGION> is the canonical AWS region name. For example, the mirror in "us-east-1" is "us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com". Thanks, Ben [1]: VPC access to the mirrors will be fixed once the mirrors move out of beta [2]: Beta mirrors access is not available in AWS GovCloud -- Ben Howard [email protected] Canonical GPG ID 0x5406A866
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