HI Davey, Thank you for your interest in this issue. I've responded inline.
~Ben On 07/23/2014 05:34 PM, Dave Walker wrote: > > > On 23 Jul 2014 22:18, "Ben Howard" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 2014-07-23, Canonical deregistered the Quickstart AMI’s for Ubuntu > > 14.04 LTS images in all regions. Canonical identified that the SSD > > labeled (GP2 volumes) were incorrectly registered -- and advertised with > > the enhanced capabilities. These SSD AMI’s were deregistered and > > replaced with new images. > > > > For a brief period, the Quickstart images were unavailable for Launch. > > AWS and Canonical worked together to provide new images. The pages at > > [1] and [2] have been updated with the new image meta-data. > > > > Canonical regrets the problems that this caused and has taken steps to > > prevent this sort of action from happening again. > > > > [1] https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases > > [2] https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2 > > Hi Ben, > > Please can you provide more detail on what the actual issue was, as > the announcement seems pretty high level. > > In particular: > - How did the issue slip past Jenkins testing? > The new SSD/GP2 EBS volume type is a registration option. The version of the the ec2-api-tools used indicated success. > > - How long were bad images published for? > The images were published starting June 17th. Images for the latest releases were retroactively published for the latest released versions of Ubuntu. > > - How was the issue caught/identified? > A community member reported the issue via the [email protected] email list on July 11th. > > - What was the resolution? > The resolution was to delete the problematic images and re-register them. Because AWS had switched the EBS volumes on the Quickstart to the new SSD volume type, there was a brief outage on the AWS Quickstart. > > - What (detail) has been done to stop issues like this happening again? > We are taking a two fold approach to this problem. 1) We are implementing volume testing to identify that the specially flagged volumes are correctly registered to prevent bad registrations from going out; and 2) implementing a new policies regarding the removal of published images. > Thanks > > -- > Kind Regards, > Dave Walker > -- Ben Howard [email protected] Canonical GPG ID 0x5406A866
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