diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml index db7c397161..3a80ce01d8 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml @@ -2646,4 +2646,58 @@ href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/ports-con + + + &os;/EC2 + + + + + Colin + Percival + + cperciva@freebsd.org + + + + + + + + +

Support for building Amazon Machine Images ("AMIs") for + Amazon EC2 is now in the src tree, via make + ec2ami in src/release. The platform is functional and + stable, and pre-built images are available in all of the public + EC2 regions.

+ +

The Amazon Web Services Marketplace reports that + approximately 400 users are running approximately 800 &os; EC2 + instances. This is an underestimate since it only counts + instances launched via the AWS Marketplace.

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MFC AMI-building code to stable/10 in time for &os; + 10.2-RELEASE.

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Complete the AMI-building handoff to the release + engineering team.

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Teach the blkfront driver to use indirect segment + requests in order to significantly increase I/O performance.

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Get working SR-IOV driver for the Intel network cards + found in EC2 "Enhanced Networking" in order to significantly + increase networking performance.

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