Category "ec2-ami"

How to check if AWS AMI support cloud-init?

In AWS Console when launching an instance with any image I get "user data" field to fill in optionally to be later executed by cloud-init. However, not all imag

How to install GTK3 and Firefox on Amazon Linux (EC2) instance?

I'm trying to install the firefox on amazon linux (ec2) instance.. but this seems very difficult as gtk3 cannot be installed directly via yum. I've seen some a

Creating AMI takes so long

I'm creating an AMI for a server with 100G files. It's been like an hour and it's still not finished. (The AMI still says pending) Is there something wrong with